The Written Quotes

As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can't do it without the musicians who can play it.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.

Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me.

There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.

I've always written down how I feel.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

History is not written in the interests of morality.

A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.

The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures.

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

I should have written books instead of reading them.

It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.

For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.

Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.

History is written by winners.

I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the forest of my own ideas and having to find my way out.

Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the stage for that to happen as well as the prompts.

Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

In ways I don't entirely have the words for an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.

Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as a conference report?

If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.

What I learned from doing The Graduate was it doesnt matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.

It's interesting when something's written about you, and there's comments after.

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something with this!"

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.

I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties.

One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.