Written Quotes
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The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
Ruth Gordon
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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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God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.
Martin Luther
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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Stephen Sondheim
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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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Similarity among all the speeches in Acts suggests that they were written by the same person—Luke.
Bart Ehrman
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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner
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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.
Michelle Dockery
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If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.
Eudora Welty
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I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
Etgar Keret
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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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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
Henrik Ibsen
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Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.
Steve Martin
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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
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THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is beautifully written, perfectly paced, expertly structured, and simply unputdownable. Koryta is an absolute master.
Deon Meyer
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I find a lot of swearing in films. And I guess that shows my age. But I also feel that where they say those words, they could just as easily have written other words.
Eva Marie Saint
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I should have written that down. - Dilbert
Scott Adams