Written Quotes
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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 -
The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.
Stella Benson
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History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
Ray Stevenson -
A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.
Carrie Fisher -
If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!
Emily Yoffe -
We've always written from personal experiences.
Keren Woodward Bananarama -
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 -
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
Blaise Pascal
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Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.
Harry Connick, Jr. -
So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
Stephen Sondheim -
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
Stephen Spender -
I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.
Neil Farber -
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
Ezra Pound -
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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Stephen Sondheim -
Keep your friends close, Sun-Tzu had written. Your enemies closer.
Eric Van Lustbader -
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 -
There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.
Harry Mathews -
I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.
Eve Bunting -
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
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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.
Mike Gallagher -
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner -
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 -
My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.
Eva Green