Written Quotes
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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.
Conn Iggulden -
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
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Arthur Helps -
I call that Book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
Thomas Carlyle -
In every story I've written with Batman, there's an element of justice - you never want to have the story end on a defeatist or a cynical note.
Paul Dini -
Time really has gone by fast. I don’t know if your path is pre-written or what, but it’s crazy how one thing just leads to another.
Torrie Wilson -
The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in.... He now knows that the only words worth writing down arise when language is impossible.
Andreï Makine -
It would seem I wouldn’t have written anything if I weren’t influenced by Canada’s history, its weather, the landscape, and its stories.
Anne McDonald
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When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.
Julia Barr -
Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.
Marcel Proust -
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
Seamus Heaney -
My tale doesn't end there, for the end has yet to be written.
Brom -
History is not what happened but what is written down
Kathleen McGowan -
'Deadwood' was just a wonderful opportunity for me. Outside of my own things that I've written, I hadn't had the opportunity to play a character with that amount of depth and range.
Ray McKinnon
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Astronomy is written for astronomers.
Nicolaus Copernicus -
Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.
Weihui Zhou -
Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.
Wei Jingsheng -
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 -
Luckily the script of X-files episode was written wonderfully and that became who I was and I was quirky, and I was kind of agitated and not entirely happy, but at the same time, witty.
Rhys Darby -
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
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Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
Miguel de Icaza -
The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
Teju Cole -
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas Carlyle