Written Quotes
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The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
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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.
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When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.
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Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
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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.
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My tale doesn't end there, for the end has yet to be written.
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To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.
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So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
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History is not what happened but what is written down
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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.
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I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.
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You're every love song ever written.
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To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control to possess it.
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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.
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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.
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True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.
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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.
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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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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.
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In a weak moment, I have written a book.
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Not to say that authors are all such sourpusses, but you meet the author in the best possible way, on the written page. I am at my best there, more patient, more thoughtful.
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I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's badly written.
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It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.
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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.
