The Written Quotes

But once I saw Fulvia Cardew crumple up a sheet of paper with just a couple of words written on it and you would’ve thought she’d murdered someone from the looks she got.

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate . . . .

I'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read.

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

Nothing exists without a purpose. Every experience you have in this lifetime was written for you to grow into the light you were meant to become.

It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't all be like that.

Happy is the day whose history is not written down.

The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

I'd never written a book or a story that required meeting people, and that's not necessarily my best skill, even in English. I prefer to do my research in books.

I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.

It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.

I often reread books I have written

I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.

I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.

Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.

People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.

It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.

They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow blue in the presence of lawyers.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

People don't like to say comic so they say Graphic Novel, despite the fact that I don't think the true Graphic Novel has been written anywhere.

Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world.

The appeal of writing a romance was that I'd never written one before the The Thorn and The Blossom.

I loved writing something I'd never written before, and I wanted to write not just about "true love" but also a human relationship.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!

He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

An empty book is like an Infant's soul, in which anything may be written.

[Valley of Violence] was written for James Ransone. PJ's a friend of mine, I've known him for a long time, he's always like, "Dude, when are we going to make a movie together?" I finally called him.

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.