The Written Quotes

Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.

If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.

Today, only about 1% of the World Wide Web is written in Arabic.

I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.

I don't consider myself a songwriter, I've tried, I've written a few with friends but that's an art form I'm gonna leave to guys like Jimmy Ritchey and Kevin Fowler.

I've done a lot of tough stories over the years. I've done a lot of profiles over the years that have not always been, shall we say, helpful for the person who is being written about.

The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.

Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book.

My belief is that everything that's written about you is actually secondary showbiz nonsense, and you shouldn't take any notice of it.

To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.

The Holy Spirit is no Skeptic, & the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions - surer & more certain than sense & life itself.

God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.

The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which are more sure and solid than all experience and even life itself.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.

One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price. It is not a matter which concerns only the writer, but all writers.

I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.

To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame.

[Donald Trump] has had the good judgment and common sense to get back with all these people, who have written the legislation already.

I don't think anyone honestly would hire me, so I don't think I have to worry but, if it was well written I would do it. I would do anything.

My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!

My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an adventure of nurturing that confidence until a passion blooms.

I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.

Everything changes as it is written down.

I dream of summing everything up in the greatest sentence ever written.

Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll approach it and write specifically to see how the pieces fit in the puzzle.

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.

every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged

If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

Sometimes when you read the Bible, you find yourself asking, "How does this book know that about me? How does it know that about our world - especially when it was written so long ago?"

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

I tend to play characters that arent supposed to black or written black.

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

No eyes can read the future, because it is a book not yet written!

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

Most of the smart things I've ever thought or written came vis-a-vis my body.

... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.