Written Quotes
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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
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I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.
Mike Gordon
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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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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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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 had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.
Alice Kahn
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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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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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
Ezra Pound
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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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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
Seamus Heaney
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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've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person.
Erik Rutan
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I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.
Sarah Dessen
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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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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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My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.
Eva Green
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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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A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
Hilary Mantel
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I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
Laurie Anderson
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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 never really written something that was inspired.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Stephen Sondheim