Written Quotes
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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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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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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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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History is not what happened but what is written down
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If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.
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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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'Crush' is probably the most honest project I've ever written. It's my voice.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.
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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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All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.
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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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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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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
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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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So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
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I love deliberately badly written books.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.
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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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All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.
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Sometimes, to be honest with you, our lyrics were written a day before the vocal had to be done.
