The Written Quotes

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world.

I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.

If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.

If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

Every single soul is a poem, written on the back of God's hand

Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

When the last history of high-frequency trading is written, Hunsader, like Joe Saluzzi and Sal Arnuk of Themis Trading, deserves a prominent place in it.

The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

Every book I've written has been different from the others, and each one seems to have its own timeline, requirements, and formal challenges.

Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.

That very document [Constitution] does little to serve people when Supreme Court decisions are written so that even high-priced lawyers can't figure them out.

I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.

I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.

I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.

I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.

My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.

I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs.

They [FBI] had a lot of clippings, a lot of articles I'd written. And to me the - the funniest one was - I had done a piece for Playboy about J. Edgar Hoover.

Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

When I approached one of his secretaries for an interview, I was told that Bob [Dylan] didn't want to see me anymore because of what my wife Margot [Hentoff] had written.

You don't want the men to be written in a three-dimensional way and the women, not.

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.

Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.

Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.

I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

American Gods was designed to be if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.

With American Gods I was trying very, very consciously - there was a level at which it was a little like trying to write a novel in French - you know, "this novel is to be written in American."

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.

The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around me.

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.

I think it's kind of written in stone that men are supposed to have strong feelings about age, but I've never really thought about it.

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

There's an interesting book called The Fugu Plan, written by Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz, which describes the circumstances when European Jews came to Japan, a semi-feudal society.

I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me abstract and speculative.

Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.

The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.