The Written Quotes

Hillary Clinton is given approval and veto power over quotes written about her in the New York Times.

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

My books are written with a strong chronological spine.

Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it.

As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's the most soulful book Patti Callahan has ever written.

I'm always writing a new book even when books are being shopped around, and none of my books has been published in the order that they have been written.

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.

If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.

Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.

There's something about seeing a guy's feelings written down, something about him taking that risk and committing that heart to paper, that means so much more than anything he could just say.

I think that sharpens the intention of a scene and clarifies a story's arc. Of course, I don't seek the questions until after I've written a scene - or maybe after I've daydreamed it.

Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.

All our souls are written in our eyes.

When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good, nobody can hurt you; if what you have written is bad, nobody can help you.

I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work.

Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.

Every girl wants songs written about her. Even the most hardened tattoo-covered punk rock girl would love a nice ballad written for her.

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.

I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect.

I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.

I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

[Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!

Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

Because I-I'm someone who wants to kiss you. Be with you." Eli says as if it is obvious, as if I know what is written on his heart.

From an early age I've written songs and played the piano.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.

Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.

Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.

If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.

There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such self-exculpatory histories cannot be written.

Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.

My dream roles haven't been written yet. My favorite thing to do is to dive into the uncharted territories of a new script that's untainted by someone else's idea of the character.

I've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person.

When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.