The Written Quotes

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people.

It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the most beautiful sentences written in English.

Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything.

What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?

To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness.

We're supposed to have guns. It says so in the Bible; and the second greatest book ever written, the Texas State Constitution.

I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is - my point is, there's a strong will for democracy.

It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.

You can always find ways to make it different, as long as it's a really well-written script and well-written character.

When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that they see the song.

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.

It has been said that if the opening phrase of a classical minuet can be fitted to the words "Are you the O'Reilly who owns this hotel?" then it was written by Haydn; if it can't then it wasn't.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.

I've written about one song on several different albums.

I've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.

I don't like writing. I like having written.

Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy.

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've shifted the metaphor to make it more immediate.

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.

I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.

The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.

Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual for success, so Darren Hardy has written one for you. The Compound Effect shows you how small, smart choices add up to transform your life.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down.

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends

I've been working on the margins and I was aware of this choice from the start. I buy most of what's written and produced in the Arab world and I don't much like it.

Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished and published novels; it couldn’t be so hard, right?

I spend a lot of time with my family. I go to bed early, don't watch too much television, don't read everything that's written about me whether positive or negative.

I’ve even written a role for Dolly Parton to play the town mayor!

I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

In the middle '50s, I had written that the point would come, inevitably, at which the relationship between the cause of conflict and political objectives would be lost.

The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.

Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.