The Written Quotes

I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes along that's good, and I want to do it.

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject.

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

I like art that trusts its audience, that's written for readers who like to work hard. I like art that knows its readers are up to the challenge of interacting with difficult material.

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.

I think that it's just extremely rare to see any kind of TV show that's completely written by one person, regardless of what any showrunner will tell you.

Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?

The movie [Miral] is not pro-Palestinian. It's about Palestinians. It's a Palestinian story, written by a Palestinian person. I don't know anybody else that could have done that

I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form.

Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

A story comes into your head fully formed, you know exactly the place, the setting, the people. All you've got to do is get it our and written as soon as you possibly can.

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

History is not what happened but what is written down

The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.

'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.

I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.

Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written.

I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.

A 'living constitution' is a dead constitution, because it does not do the one and only thing a written constitution is supposed to do: provide parameters around the power of officials.

The first thing a fascist regime does is burn books. To not have them around would mean to make sure they're not written in the first place.

I guess I've written enough songs now. I've been doing this for so many years, that it's kinda cool just to be able to pull something out of the bag.

It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.

I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.

My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

I'd hate to be a writer forever and never perform, and I'd hate to perform and not write. I get sad if time has passed and I haven't written or made anything. I'm an artist.

It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.

When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

I've always relied on producing more material than I need. With each of my published novels I've written around four times the amount of material that's ended up in the book.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

I've never written a hard journalism piece in my life. I've never wanted to do that.

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book.

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.