The Written Quotes

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.

I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.

She is written in a foreign tongue.

When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.

I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on.

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written--Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from wrath and shame, As doth the burial-bed.

As long as I'm giving a little hype, I can't resist saying that Elie [Wiesel] has also written a number of pieces for Bible Review, for which I serve as editor.

A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.

I have written a book it's called "Stronger Together."

I don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me.

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.

Every time I think that I've pierced through the simulation, every time I feel like I've written something authentic, it feels like I then sort of lose my footing with it.

I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American.

The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image.

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.

Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word.

You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the composer tells me to do - and I do it, but it will still sound different each day.

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

I've read your summary." "And?" "It's not incompetent." Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon?

It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.

Charlie Studd has written me a delightful letter... He thinks the Chinese language was invented by the devil to prevent the Chinese from ever hearing the Gospel properly.

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.

Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.

If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.

Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.

If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.

Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.

I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.