The Written Quotes

You learn the values that are inherent in the scene that the writer has written. You learn about who you as a character are in relation to those others who are working with you within that scene.

I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.

We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood.

The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.

I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.

For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.

I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh.

One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.

Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.

I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling.

I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring an interesting angle to the character that isn't written.

Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot.

...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.

Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.

I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was another novel to write that I was going to write another.

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.

If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?

What I think of blogs is just this: Some are beautifully written and many are not. But even blogs that aren't necessarily "well" written are great for the person writing them.

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.

I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.

Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in the face of public policy that have written too many young people off.

I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.

I'm not particularly worried by any of the songs we've written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff which is total tripe.

Only the Strong is a lushly atmospheric and passionately written piece of work, bursting with colorful characters that shine on every page.

It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.

Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.

My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.

I know it's boring to say this but I always start with the script. I mean if it's well written and it's a character that I haven't necessarily played before.

The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the] Author: the Spirit of God.

I've written a bunch of stuff that no one's ever heard, and I don't know if they ever will. I'm just doing it for my own edification.

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.