Written Quotes
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The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
Teju Cole
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
Lord Byron
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Keep your friends close, Sun-Tzu had written. Your enemies closer.
Eric Van Lustbader
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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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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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
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The written word is everything.
John Drinkwater
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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
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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.
Stephen Hough
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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
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It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.
Bill Roorbach
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I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
Ernest Hemingway
