The Written Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.

I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.

I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.

When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand it, you're outside of it.

Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.

You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.

Mutability is written upon all things.

It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.

Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

A dream doesn't become a goal until you write it down.

I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldnt be the bad guy in the joke; he couldnt upset people, really.

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I’ve ever written was because I don’t have a choice. I write stories because I can’t wait to tell it, I can’t wait to see how it ends.

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.