Written Quotes
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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."
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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.
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My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.
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To do it on film, where it'll be seen by more people than have seen the play since it was written, it humbles you.
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Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
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Nowhere is it written that you can’t do it.
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If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get it wrong most of the time.
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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.
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I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.
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WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.
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Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.
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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.
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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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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.
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I call that Book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
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Astronomy is written for astronomers.
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I expected a lot of flak over my new book, '50 Things Liberals Love to Hate' from, well, liberals. It's not a big shock that the kind of liberals I skewer in the book - the radical, Che Guevara-loving type - have posted scathing reviews at Amazon and written nasty e-mails and voiced opposition to a book they haven't actually read.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.
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I like having written better than I like having acted.
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I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.
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All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.
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I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall.
