The Written Quotes

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.

Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.

"Admission" is Paul Weitz's movie. This is Karen Croner - the screenwriter's - movie. To have such a lovely role in such a beautifully written script offered to me, it's like elves made the shoes.

It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful.

I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written

I had written about a small hamlet upstate, and had been called into a meeting about my story, which, as it turned out, had upset a lot of people.

Tom Kizzia hasn't just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he's lived it. 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' is a story that needed to be told by the only man who could tell it.

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

There's a place on my arm where I've written her name next to mine.

Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone about four months without writing a thing.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.

If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

The name of the human who is written in this note shall die.

I don't think that [thew are bigots] of [Donald Trump] supporters. Those supporters are from my hometown - I understand that suffering. I have written about it repeatedly from my hometown.

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

The only time I get upset by things written about me - when people write irresponsible things about my weight... I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing.

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.

The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.

Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?

Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional restraints on Congress.

I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name agen.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.

A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.

"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless.

When you people have a set up joke and the joke is set up straight and the words are just well written, I always say "C'mon, humans don't speak that way."

Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.

I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.

The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.

I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.

Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.