The Written Quotes

I had written a script called "Freed," which I had wanted to direct.

Sometimes I look back and think, "How did I write that? The book is smarter than I am!" I have never written strategically, but rather, followed the dictates of my muse.

Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.

Everything I've written up to now, hasn't had anything to do with my life really.

Editorials are written by people who have agreed to have several strong opinions a day and to write them down, provided they do not have to sign their names.

Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.

Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.

Guy Gavriel Kays Tigana is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. Its beautifully written, the characters are unforgettable, the worldbuilding is exquisite.

Lyrics should not need to stand on their own; many of [Bob] Dylan's do, but in common with other great lyricists, he has written plenty that falters on the page but soars in song.

I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.

I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage.

I think one of the most wonderful things we can do as performers is to remind audiences that they can still relate to the emotions and feelings, as though the music had been written yesterday.

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

How do you commemorate a year? A paper anniversary, but we are the words written down, not the paper.

Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one else could have written.

Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.

I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have written a bad campaign, it has been because the product did not interest me.

In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.

Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, Cronkite is a classic. Douglas Brinkley has written his best book yet. This is a fascinating story that will be read for years to come.

There are a couple of things that we did not get to do last season [of Mary and Jane]. There was one that we had written and then we had to excise it and still have not gone back to it.

Write hand-written notes daily and commit to supporting the growth and self-esteem of children, because it makes such a big difference in terms of their capacity for learning.

We have so many different options now and ways to communicate digitally. But I don't think anything is more meaningful or powerful than a hand-written letter.

As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it.

Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.

I got on my knees and sort of communicated with the spirits. When I came out, I was in charge. I couldn't have acted that, I couldn't have written that.

He looked at her. “We’re meant to be together…” “And this is exactly what I mean.” “Our love is written in the stars.” “And there you go again.” “I love you.” “You bore me.

And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.

Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.

My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already written my best book.

I felt like 'Life' was a great show. It was really well-written.

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

I'm always doubting my work, even when people are kind enough to say good things. I still have a hard time believing I've written some books, let alone that they've actually done pretty well.

In new written testimony, just out as part Freedom of Information Act request, Hillary Clinton said she couldn't remember, recall, or anything else, key events and key things 21 different times.