Written Quotes
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The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.
Tom Lehrer
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I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.
Phil Collins Genesis
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Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.
E. L. James
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Nature's great book is written in mathematics.
Galileo Galilei
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Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.
Aristotle
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
Dan Fogelberg
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Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.
Flannery O'Connor
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Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I’m going to use the money to go to space.
Donald Miller
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Blue Monday's distinctive intro was written on an Oberheim DMX drum machine.
Gillian Gilbert New Order
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I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.
Imtiaz Ali
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I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.
Barbara Feldon
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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
Oscar Wilde
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A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.
Plato
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The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.
Chris Owen
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'Mean Girls' stands the test of time as one of the greatest comedies ever produced. I've seen it way too many times, and I just think it's the most brilliant thing ever written. I love it so much.
Kate McKinnon
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Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.
George Saintsbury
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It sometimes takes 6 months or more after you've written and recorded it before you can start to enjoy the experience of singing the song.
Matt Shultz Cage the Elephant
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
Nikolai Gogol
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All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.
Eugene Ionesco
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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Oscar Wilde
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The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
Eric Brown
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I think when the movie `Roxanne' came out, which I also had written, I felt something new that I never felt, which was respect.
Steve Martin
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Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten
Daniel Shipley
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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
Allen Tate