The Written Quotes

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.

Well I've written four beauty books as well.

It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.

I've always had a fondness for language... English. Not that I use it correctly but I like words. I like books and I like poetry.. I like the written word... and the sung word.

I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.

The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying.

I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.

A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

If there's a poster boy for the fact that all essays are written through personae, it's Crèvecoeur.

Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written off as not their kind of writer.

The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.

There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw.

I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.

I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals.

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

Eventually, in the editing movie you have to look at it as if you hadn't written it. So, you have to be a bit more brutal.

I had a bad experience on Ned Kelly, which I'd written the screenplay for. I thought: "Well Jesus, if these are the type of people directing movies I might as well direct one myself!"

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

Sometimes people can't afford to work for you, or they're not interested or available, and you hate to have written the whole movie with somebody in mind and not get them.

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going to take care of us.

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it was obviously that I would write them, too.

Most of the guys like sticking to the script and doing just what's written. If they're exploring, they're exploring ways of doing the script.

The work changes the way your face changes and ages - it just does. Also, I have very little connection to anything I've written. I move on. We all move on

I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.

I once saw John Updike get in front of a crowd and read a story that he'd written in 1958, and I just thought, I can't even look at stuff I wrote a year ago, I can't believe he's doing this.

When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.

I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel but I know what the ending will be already.

We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.

A lot of the things that seem to be coming out now [in 2016] could have been written just maybe three years ago by the Gang of Eight or by Jeb Bush.

When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town.