The Written Quotes

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

Every word written is a victory against death.

I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America so granted, it is part of our heritage and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

The shorter and the plainer the better.

When you see what you're here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It's almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you.

All those songs are totally timeless. They'll always stand up because they came from a real place. They weren't crafted songs. They were written from the heart.

Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

So it shall be written. So it shall be done.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.

In the stars is written the death of every man.

Good advertising is written from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.

I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind.

The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

I firmly believe every book was meant to be written.

Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Much has been written about the loyalty of dogs, but what I love about them isn't their devotion to me so much as their devotion to being alive.

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.

Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened.

I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last two or three thousand years. But we hope.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

Looking for a word from the Lord? Believe that he has already spoken, and read what he's already written.

I have written my name on the far side of the sky.