The Written Quotes

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

I think their pasts are treated with a voice that sees their role as those of innocents. That's reflected in the past time sequences. They're less "written."

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.

What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.

I've never written anything that wasn't somewhat of a collaboration. I don't know how people do it on their own.

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.

Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.

In This Body Mystery, even though it was written in the voice of people with HIV/AIDS, it's about how people come to accept their fate and their sickness. It's about accepting the way your life is.

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

I love what Joe Eszterhas written about Bill Clinton. It's hilarious, Clinton as a rock star, which is the way we should remember him.

I just am so tired of really badly written women. It's so boring.

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

I really liked it. It was awesome - my first tabloid story. If you're going to have a tabloid story written about you, it might as well be with Johnny Depp.

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

If people I've never met or don't know say that what I've written or done or said means anything to them, then I'm happy to take it at face value, for once. It cheers me up.

A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or so I fondly imagine.

You know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases.

There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.

All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.

I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and I started reading through it and thought some of it was really good. So I burnt it all.

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

From my experience, the only thing you can do is take what's written on the page and try, through your own curiosity and investigation, to make it your own and honor what the original intent was.

And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones.

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.

How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.

I've written a lot about drugs and alcohol. I wouldn't say it's because we've gotten bigger or anything, but I kind of feel a little bit done with it. There are other things to talk about.

The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.

Samuel Fuller pictures were both written and shot in such an unusual way that his voice came through loud and clear, and it made a big impression on me.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater.

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.

Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.

I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.