Written Quotes

• This book could not have been written without the people of Mongolia, who allowed me to live among them for a time and who taught me their history over salted tea and vodka while the winter eased into spring.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • People
  • Book
  • Mongolia

• Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Author
  • Written
  • Please

• Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Written
  • Airports

• Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Words
  • Listen
  • Written

• 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.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Written
  • Shy
  • Irritated

• To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control to possess it.

  

  Edouard Glissant
  • Control
  • Move
  • Possess

• The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Cities
  • Site
  • Palimpsest

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

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Book
  • Language
  • Scholar

• I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in the cupboard.

  

  Ray Guy
  • Children
  • Everything
  • Putting

• I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

  

  Hunter Parrish
  • Song
  • Verses
  • Chorus

• No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Humanity
  • Ready
  • Seekers

• It's interesting when something's written about you, and there's comments after.

  

  Alison Stewart
  • Interesting
  • Written
  • Comments

• But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

  

  George Eliot
  • History
  • Written
  • Vicissitudes

• My tale doesn't end there, for the end has yet to be written.

  

  Brom
  • Written
  • Tale

• The true word of God is written in our heart.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Heart
  • Written

• To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.

  

  Bonnie Friedman
  • Book
  • Hope
  • Written

• You're every love song ever written.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Song
  • Written

• I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Women
  • Written
  • Autobiography

• I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.

  

  Blackie
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Like

• It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.

  

  Bill Roorbach
  • Heaven
  • Fate
  • Written

• 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.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Death
  • Kid
  • My Wife

• I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.

  

  Israel Horovitz
  • Enough
  • Written
  • Troubling

• I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody else to listen to it. I need, I do want an audience. So it's a strange thing. It's a very private conversation that then, you make public, kind of, like, the starfish flipping its stomach out.

  

  Kay Ryan
  • Myself
  • Audience
  • Public

• I've always written - about music, art, things going on around the world. The danger is that it becomes too personal. I don't think people want it at that level of intimacy.

  

  Stephen Hough
  • Music
  • Written
  • Intimacy

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