Written Quotes
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Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
Ray Bradbury
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Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.
Beryl Markham
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Keep your friends close, Sun-Tzu had written. Your enemies closer.
Eric Van Lustbader
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We've always written from personal experiences.
Keren Woodward
Bananarama
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WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.
Edmond Jabes
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So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
Stephen Sondheim
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
Ezra Pound
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There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.
Harry Mathews
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Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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I expected a lot of flak over my new book, '50 Things Liberals Love to Hate' from, well, liberals. It's not a big shock that the kind of liberals I skewer in the book - the radical, Che Guevara-loving type - have posted scathing reviews at Amazon and written nasty e-mails and voiced opposition to a book they haven't actually read.
Mike Gallagher
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To do it on film, where it'll be seen by more people than have seen the play since it was written, it humbles you.
Stephen Henderson
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If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.
Eudora Welty