The Written Quotes

Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.

The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity.

I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.

People say history was written by the winners. No, it wasn't. It was written by the bullies.

I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.

The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent.

There is no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say: 'Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world.'

I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

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.

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.

Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.

The slice of time has become enormous in importance, and its hidden meaning is now perfectly plain, though so complex that it can hardly be written down.

He is the greatest influence in the world today. There is... a fifth Gospel being written - the work of Jesus Christ in the hearts and lives of men and nations.

I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.

Cherry Money Baby is fabulous in every sense of the word! It’s earthy and smart and moving, laugh-out-loud funny, surprising, inventive, suspenseful, and — Oh, Hell — just gorgeously written!

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

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

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 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.

The information I most want is in books not yet written by people not yet born.

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.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

There are a lot I'm proud of, and a lot I wish the hell I'd never written.

A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.