Written Quotes
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I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.
Blackie
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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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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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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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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
Seamus Heaney
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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.
Richard Prince
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I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
Laurie Anderson
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.
Ernest Bramah
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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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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.
Charles Dickens
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Nowhere is it written that you can’t do it.
Elena Ferrante
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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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I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter.
Sandra Bullock
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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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Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
Ernie Harwell
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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