The Written Quotes

Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most?

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.

I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood dont go anywhere.

Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.

I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.

Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?

It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of "laws" to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.

Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old. I don't remember doing that, and I think it was more that I was very energetic.

I'm really worried about my girlfriend's morals ... she has NEXT written on her knickers.

Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a mans change of life.

The text says Deuteronomy was lost, but you say it was written then.

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

In terms of the films I make, I'm just more excited about it if I've written it. It's like living in a house that you've built rather than a rental.

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.

I have my favorite authors, but in reality, my mother did. Though she's never written a book, she paved the way for me to.

The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

The last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed.

Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.

I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.

I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.

I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.

Certainly, I am aware that there have been a number of articles written about me and television shows in which I have been featured and referred to as a "cult leader."

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.

I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.

I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.

A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement.

History, that is to be written tomorrow ...to be read by our children ... to serve as their guide is written in our actions today. A greater call to responsibility I have not known.

If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.

I've always as a performer on stage tend to sort of throw myself into the character, whatever I've written about, so it depends on how I'm writing or what I'm writing about.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.

Songs are often written by people who are witnesses to history.

It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know.

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.

I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King’s Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting?

"Come at once," she had written to him. "Help me. Save me. I need you now as I have never needed you before. I love you. I love you. I love you. Come at once"

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.