The Written Quotes

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

It's really fun doing scenes with people when there's no written dialogue because you're really listening to each other, you're playing off each other, because that's all you have as a guide.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in the back told Jerry McGill not to go on, Jerry went on-smiling.

I have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.

My fans have written me such kind emails. My management at Daptone helped me heal, too. I'm in a good place.

SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion.

As far as I remember, there was no actual lyric written to that.At the very beginning of "Fiddler on the Roof," there's a violin solo, an unaccompanied violin solo.

The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it.

I would never have written it without you. (Erin) And I would never have lived without you. (V'Aiden)

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

That desire to reach further is also where I ended my memoir, in 1994 in California, perhaps ironically, looking out to the Pacific and back to Asia, toward the not-yet-written.

There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.

You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.

If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

[Bananarama] were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.

If I just gave you a piece of paper with the lyrics written down on it, it would mean something to you. It would tell you a story.

I've always written my own scripts, I really like doing everything from the beginning and taking it all the way through, I've probably learned that from my dad.

All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.

I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.

A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.

Normally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.

None of my songs are written 'about' someone or something, they all just sort of tumble out unannounced, like the worst kind of house guest.

Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.

I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.

God was there when it happened. We were not there.... Therefore, we are completely limited to what God has seen fit to tell us, and this information is in His written Word.

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.

The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM

With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.

I can imagine lyrics becoming better written by smart machines rather than stupid musicians. Songwriters generally have nothing to say. They may as well be replaced by machines.

Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses

And if Henry Higgins is not the most reprehensible character ever written for the stage, that's only because somewhere, somehow, someone is composing a musical biography of Ronald Reagan

The specifics of the platform, I don't think, are necessarily going to be written by Bernie Sanders, but the themes of the platform are going to be written by Bernie Sanders.

Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.

I think when the movie 'Roxanne' came out, which I also had written, I felt something new that I never felt, which was respect.

There [in Allied] were things that were written that were cut, and things that were shot that were cut, but if the film works, they are erased from memory.

I've found through experience that I'm only good when I'm writing something that, in essence, only I could write. The times I've written for hire, for other people, I don't think I've done very well.

I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think I might have written that."

Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written.

No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.

I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.

Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?

I started using Notes [on my iPhone] but I do a lot of hand written notes. It's a very slow, accumulative thing.

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.