Written Quotes
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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.
George Eliot
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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.
Simone de Beauvoir
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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
Lao Tzu
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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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Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
Paul Auster
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We've always written from personal experiences.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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My progressive ideals are screaming in Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos book; what I believe. There is no muddying-up because of debate. You know exactly where I stand, because I put it down in the written word.
Angela Alioto
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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.
Scott Cohen
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In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.
Laura Lippman
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The true word of God is written in our heart.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.
Clarence Nash
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas Carlyle
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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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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In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.
Nick Bilton
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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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Every time I felt the pain coming on I'd go downstairs and hammer out an idea. After a few months I started to take a look at what I was making, I had for the first time in my life written a large grip of songs completely alone and without any expectations or plans of what they would be for.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
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Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
Miguel de Icaza
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I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.
Mike Gordon
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The written word is everything.
John Drinkwater
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From an actor's point of view, if you are watching something, and you see improv, you know it. Because of your experience, you just bloody know that wasn't written.
Paul Eenhoorn
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.
William Gibson
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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