The Written Quotes

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.

Synchronized with the rising moon Even with the evening star They were true love written in stone They were never alone, they were never that far apart

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the people who did not write them; so it's a new definition of "author."

Mostly things that have happened to me, feelings that I've had, but on a couple of occasions I've written about things that have happened to other people.

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be.

All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software.

Most books about Stanley Kubrick were written by people who never met him and gathered information from articles written by others who didn't know him either.

There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.

One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

Reading LOVE JUNKIE is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written, piercingly honest.

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.

Pilots get made, and they don't go to series. Stuff gets written and never gets made. I've tried to develop stuff that never went. It comes and it goes. It's a part of the process.

My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention but they only emerge in the moment.

When it comes to casting, I've been so lucky. I've worked with unbelievable actors who make me look better than I am and take the written word and make it honest.

...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

So, the Phoenix Suns are wearing jerseys written in Spanish, made in China, modeled after their best player, Canadian Steve Nash. There you go. That is America.

[Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's an exquisitely written treatise regarding the black list era.

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

I love to write and I love the natural world. Everything I've written about I've found exciting and it has never left me at a loss for words. I've always just done what I love.

I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.

Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.

My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far into the future as I feel comfortable seeing.

Perhaps no more beautiful passages have ever been written about the Savior's atonement and crucifixion than those written by Isaiah.

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.

I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.

Whenever I have a bunch of tunes written, I always find a kind of uniform that accompanies the songs.

While we do have 50 years of terrific Avengers stories, many of which our writing staff has written, along the way, this has to live in its own world.

We had tried to get a couple books that were written about Ray Kroc, and one of the books, we called the publisher. The publisher actually said, "Call McDonald."

To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.

If ever an error had "F" written on it, that grounder did.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.

I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I found [cursing] is a sign that a joke is not finished or well-written.

If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.