Written Quotes
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What is written is more influential than what is said.
James Cook
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I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
Maya Angelou
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I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
Karine Vanasse
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Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
Andy Rooney
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Where is it written that lives should have a meaning?
Elena Ferrante
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I lost myself somewhere. And that’s a very sad thing. Losing yourself is sad and heartbreaking. Fucking sad and fucking heartbreaking. Losing yourself isn’t like losing a key to your house. It isn’t like losing an expensive pair of sunglasses or even the only copy of the greatest screenplay you’ve ever written.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.
Adam Clymer
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I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.
J. K. Simmons
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It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.
Charles Wright
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Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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Fate is written in the face.
Federico Fellini
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Perhaps Lila was right: my book—even though it was having so much success—really was bad, and this was because it was well organized, because it was written with obsessive care, because I hadn’t been able to imitate the disjointed, unaesthetic, illogical, shapeless banality of things.
Elena Ferrante