The Written Quotes

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

I have those (goals) written down, but don't want to discuss them. Right now, I just want to keep on improving.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

I realize that the New York Times probably not written for the express purpose of driving me mad; I think of it as liberalism's daily bulletin board.

I want to get people to read stone, tree, so forth & so on through the construction of the picture, to lead them to these things exactly as if it were written out on a page. I think it can be done.

Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the first that was ever written.

The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.

Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

Letters are largely written to get things out of your system.

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?

Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.

Ive probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.

Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.

When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.

They've never written a love story for me since I've been on the show and I think there's just more weight to it when two people love each other.

[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft.

I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.

Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

You can write better about a place you've seen for yourself. You don't have to have been there - I've sure written about places I've never seen - but it does help.

I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

Films were never on my agenda, may be it was written in my destiny. And since I am here, I would like to give it my best try.

How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - I will venture to say, will be written!

I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.

I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics actually written by people who are comics writers and who aren't setting out to do graphic novels.

While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on a fascinating and fraught chapter in recent Jewish history.

The love religion is all that is written here.

[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.

I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict.