Written Quotes
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So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
Stephen Sondheim -
I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.
Neil Farber
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
Blaise Pascal -
I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.
Sarah Dessen -
The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
Ruth Gordon -
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Stephen Sondheim -
I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.
Ethan Canin -
I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall.
Nellie Bly
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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 -
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
Ray Bradbury -
Keep your friends close, Sun-Tzu had written. Your enemies closer.
Eric Van Lustbader -
Nowhere is it written that you can’t do it.
Elena Ferrante -
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.
Edmond Jabes -
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.
Stephen Henderson
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Similarity among all the speeches in Acts suggests that they were written by the same person—Luke.
Bart Ehrman -
I`ve got a black woolen hat and it`s got Pervert written across the front of it. It`s the name of the clothing label. And I was with my wife and my baby at the supermarket and I didn`t think. I just put my hat on Clara`s head, because it was cold. And the looks. I couldn`t figure out why I was getting death looks. And then I realized my 10-month old baby`s wearing a hat with the word Pervert written on it and these people were like, `There`s Satan! There`s Satan out with his kid!` And then I made a point of her wearing it every time we went there.
Ewan McGregor -
My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.
George Eliot -
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.
Mike Gallagher -
I've never really written something that was inspired.
Wyclef Jean Fugees -
Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.
Stephen Ambrose
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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.
Ricky Schroder -
If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!
Emily Yoffe -
There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.
Harry Mathews -
THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is beautifully written, perfectly paced, expertly structured, and simply unputdownable. Koryta is an absolute master.
Deon Meyer