Written Quotes

Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

The Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to #‎ change our lives.

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

To compose is to remember music that has never been written.

It has been my unbroken policy not to see newspaper writers or give interviews to anyone. At the word interview spoken or written my ears go up and my chin out.

The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.

History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul.

Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the knowledge of the universe that is beyond physical expression.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.

I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me.

Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species.

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.

We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke rising above the Pentagon.

I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

The Bible is one book, written by one Author, with one subject: Jesus Christ and the salvation God...provides through Him.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

So much of me is made of what I learned from you; you'll be with me like a handprint on my heart and now whatever way our stories end I know you have re-written mine by being my friend

The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.

If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.

Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren’t distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.

The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.