The Written Quotes

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!

You appear in the Novelletten in every possible circumstance, in every irresistible form... They could only be written by one who knows such eyes as yours and has touched such lips as yours.

I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

I've never written songs about relationships. I've written songs about how I feel. The songs are more about me, than another person. That's the way I like to look at it.

Time really has gone by fast. I don’t know if your path is pre-written or what, but it’s crazy how one thing just leads to another.

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".

I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.

I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Once something is well-written, then everything else is gravy.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

Astronomy is written for astronomers

Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another venue.

The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

When the real history of the world is written, it will show god’s dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.

If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.