The Written Quotes

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for enabling a patient to get rid of whatever is ailing him.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

Ive always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

I like films to be complete in their written form.

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.

When something bad is written about me, I find it hurtful. So I choose not to look at it.

I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it.

I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

I've also never written anything really in LA.

I've written a little bit in Germany.

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.

We have written a draft of the script in every calendar year since [2010]. Quite honestly. Our Deadpool file is... full, to capacity.

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

I find stuff written about me is in stark contrast to who I am. But I can sleep well at night knowing that I did my best - I'm looking forward to my next chapter, whatever that is.

Honest songs aren't written for money.

What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are human, and that allow them to go to a wide range of places.

In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended edition.

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters 'Beware of the dog.'

I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.

Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books.

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.

Selena recorded a song I had written and she left my parts in on the middle eight so it ended up being Selena Gomez featuring Pixie Lott.

I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.

If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film does well, and you've had the best year of your life! I don't believe in all that's written.

When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in that area, and written books more or less in that area, too.

The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.