William Faulkner Quotes
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
Quotes to Explore
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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I've always written down how I feel.
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Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
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I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.
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Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
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Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten
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I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.
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What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace.
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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
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The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.
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I don't have anything against this Jesus guy, but has he written, directed, and starred in his own movie?
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
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Geometry existed before creation.
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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
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Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.
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I`ve got a black woolen hat and it`s got Pervert written across the front of it. It`s the name of the clothing label. And I was with my wife and my baby at the supermarket and I didn`t think. I just put my hat on Clara`s head, because it was cold. And the looks. I couldn`t figure out why I was getting death looks. And then I realized my 10-month old baby`s wearing a hat with the word Pervert written on it and these people were like, `There`s Satan! There`s Satan out with his kid!` And then I made a point of her wearing it every time we went there.
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Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings.
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Sometimes just having someone understand how much you want something makes reality easier to bear.
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
