The Written Quotes

Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.

So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her husband's policies?

... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.

The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.

The rule is not written anywhere, it's not etched in any  -  but, I mean, that's the prevailing attitude of this entire society. Don't have an adventure.

To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.

Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

I dont think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.

They were nicely written and nicely directed episodes [Star Trek: Enterprise]. I enjoyed working with Scott [Bakula]. So it was good to do, and, as you said, it did serve to enhance the Soong legacy.

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?

A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.

My tale doesn't end there, for the end has yet to be written.

I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written countless times over the decade. Each iteration has proved to be ephemeral, as the moment has continually shown itself to have a deeper bench than we imagine.

Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind.

Frankly, reviews aremostly for peoplewho still read.Like most of the written word, it isgoing the way of the dinosaur.

A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.

I was just infused with ideas and I would dream about it and wake up and go, "Oh, I have another idea about Walter White." It was so well written. And it just got into my soul.

What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.

If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.

I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.

There are about five or six songs that were written in full or in part while I was in Iraq, and that was definitely a life-changing experience. There was no shortage of inspiration.

I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

We're a live band. Some bands write their songs in the studio - we don't do that. We're playing songs on this tour that were written three days before the tour. And it feels good to try these songs.

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

I bought it [sha la la la lee] because of steve marriotts voice. I didnt realise until recently it was written by kenny lynch. I'm not at all embarrassed, great song and great band.

The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.

A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above all, and its wisdom. It is a gift like no other.

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career

I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.

I like having written better than I like having acted.

A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.

I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

History gets written by the winners.

She'd rather hoped for something simple, like a lined piece of notebook paper with MY EVIL PLAN written across the top, but no luck.

trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.

I think for [Albert] Camus his mother was more than just that. She's love, absolute love. That's why it's written for her, dedicated to 'you who will never be able to read this book'.

The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.