Written Quotes
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All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.
Beth Nielsen Chapman
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
Hilary Mantel
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The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.
Ray Bradbury
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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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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.
William H. Macy
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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.
Anthony Trollope
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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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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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But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.
Sarah Dessen
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I've never really written something that was inspired.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've actually had a teenage character in almost every adult novel that I've written.
Michelle Gagnon
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
Ezra Pound
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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.
King George V
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THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is beautifully written, perfectly paced, expertly structured, and simply unputdownable. Koryta is an absolute master.
Deon Meyer
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I've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person.
Erik Rutan
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There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.
Harry Mathews
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Arthur Helps
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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 like having written better than I like having acted.
Carrie Fisher
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Interviews are written by someone else - the journalist makes the decision to add or take things away and I couldn't recognize my voice, or anything of myself in that.
Catherine Deneuve
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When you people have a set up joke and the joke is set up straight and the words are just well written, I always say "C'mon, humans don't speak that way."
Will Gluck
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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
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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
Seamus Heaney