The Written Quotes

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

The only map of your right life is written on your soul at its most peaceful, and the only sure compass is your heart at its most open.

I love being vulnerable. It's scary. I feel like the best stuff that I have ever written can come from real vulnerable places.

I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!

The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse.

I've never written a song about DNA or anything that I work on. But I just think that DIY aspect, and the creativity and the belonging and acceptance is what drew me in.

A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

I hate going back over what I've written. It makes me feel physically sick.

I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15 we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

Ive really written my books for my husband and our family. Theyve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.

The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.

Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.

Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten

All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care.

Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.

I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

Much is written of the power of the Press, a power which may last but a day; by comparison little is heard of the power of books, which may endure for generations.

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989.

The law of self-preservation is higher than written law.

The character, as written on the page, is just a blueprint for a human being.

I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.

I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.

There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

The written word is everything.

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.

I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a tough pill to swallow.