Written Quotes
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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.
Edmond Jabes
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Nowhere is it written that you can’t do it.
Elena Ferrante
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I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall.
Nellie Bly
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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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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
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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
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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've always written my own scripts, I really like doing everything from the beginning and taking it all the way through, I've probably learned that from my dad.
Sofia Coppola
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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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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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Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.
Ernest Bramah
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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
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I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
Laurie Anderson
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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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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
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I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.
Lewis Carroll
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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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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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I call that Book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
Thomas Carlyle
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I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.
Eve Bunting
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The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
Ruth Gordon
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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner
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A good book written for children can be read by adults
Norton Juster