Written Quotes
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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 always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
Seamus Heaney
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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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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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A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
Hilary Mantel
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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 had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.
Alice Kahn
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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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It would seem I wouldn’t have written anything if I weren’t influenced by Canada’s history, its weather, the landscape, and its stories.
Anne McDonald
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I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
Laurie Anderson
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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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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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I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
Tony Gilroy
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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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There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.
Harry Mathews
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A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.
Carrie Fisher
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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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Sometimes, to be honest with you, our lyrics were written a day before the vocal had to be done.
Steve Porcaro
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I've always written my own scripts, I really like doing everything from the beginning and taking it all the way through, I've probably learned that from my dad.
Sofia Coppola
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I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.
Sarah Dessen
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I've never really written something that was inspired.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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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.
Dolly Parton
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Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.
Seth MacFarlane
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I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.
Mike Gordon