Written Quotes
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This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
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The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about love, despair and birth order—the themes the Bard himself had claimed and burnished.
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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.
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In a weak moment, I have written a book.
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Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play.
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A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way.
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I wouldn't say I see things visually first, but what I do think is important, for a lot of screenwriters, is to not just think about the words on the page, but also the world as a whole and the vibe of the movie, rather than a sequence of scenes written on the page.
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Definitely, I want to continue doing films and television, but my heart is in music. I've written for most of my life.
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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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What really put me over the top was receiving a packet of hundreds of hand-written thank you notes, telling me how the kids were inspired and excited about the Cube project.
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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 feel like part of the inequality is that there are few great roles written for older women, and I think part of that is, basically, people want to look at young women, whereas men are still considered attractive - or more attractive - when they get older.
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Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.
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I love deliberately badly written books.
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In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.
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We've always written from personal experiences.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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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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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 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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I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
