The Written Quotes

Most people, or at least most of the people that I've come into contact with, would like to be written about.

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

I've written this song called 'Insania' - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word you instantly know what it means!

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.

Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature.

Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to show them the way.

There are Easter eggs in every book I've ever written. I think in the first one I called Scientology "Diabology," but I was scared, so I didn't tell many people what it really meant.

Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way.

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

No they called it the Codex Merlini because it was written by a guy named Ralph.

Liberals could live their whole lives never having to hear an actual conservative opinion other than the idiotic arguments written for conservative characters on Aaron Sorkin's little teleplays.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.

The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.

Whatever was written in the media was beyond me. The only thing I could control was getting fit.

There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.

Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.

In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

I do not like to write - I like to have written.