The Written Quotes

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

I want all of my songs to do well whether I've written them or not.

Written by a woman automatically is better.

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"

I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.

I'm quite an opinionated person, but I'd never written a diary before. I quite like it!

Nobody says anything real today. Most of those girls have their songs written by other people. It annoys me, because 'eh oh eh oh ahh' is not a chorus...

The written word is the link between the past and the future.

For so long I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

I'm not an idiot; I try not to look, but I see what people say about me on Facebook. I see other things written. But I don't care.

The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way.

This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating as an art form than novels.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.

Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical

There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking, "Don't even try to be smart, it's absurd."

I wish I could [keep a journal]. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will write myself a quick email on my Blackberry when I think of something.

I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has been written down even before one has committed a crime.

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

I have never written anything sexually explicit.

When I'm choosing things, there's a level of intelligence I want to peel off, whether it's written in terribly simple sentences, whether it's from the point of view of a dog, or a 15-year-old boy.

To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.

The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

Everything looks true written down. What you read in National Enquirer and News Of The World looks true written down.

I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.

This is Rilke. I wish I had written it for you.

I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.

When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your teacher taught you to do in school.

Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.