Written Quotes
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Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
Stephen Spender
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History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.
Steve Rushin
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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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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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God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.
Martin Luther
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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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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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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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If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!
Emily Yoffe
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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 never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner
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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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Similarity among all the speeches in Acts suggests that they were written by the same person—Luke.
Bart Ehrman
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The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
Ruth Gordon
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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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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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If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.
Eudora Welty
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I should have written that down. - Dilbert
Scott Adams
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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