Written Quotes
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When we rely on written records we need to continually ask ourselves what might be missing, what might have been recorded in order to manipulate events and in what direction, and in what ways we are allowing ourselves to assume that objectivity is in any way connected with literacy.
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A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.
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When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.
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I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
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If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
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Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."
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The treaty was not worth the paper on which it was written.
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If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.
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The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.
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The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.
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The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
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No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it.
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I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on, writing editorials. And in The Voice one day I once referred to him as Commander Askeli. And I called in to The Reporter to go over the galleys of a music piece I had written, and the editor whispered to me, `It's not gonna run. You're not gonna run. Max Askeli has fired you because of what you said about him.'
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...but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million people, not in war, but by their own government. The governments that led in this slaughter are the former USSR (65 million) and the Peoples Republic of China (35-40 million). The point to remember is that these governments were the idols of America's leftists. Part of the reason for these and other tyrannical successes was because the people were first disarmed.
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Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 books I've written.
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As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.
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Amos built a wigwam in the clubhouse because he didn't want the reporters talking to him. He didn't like something that was written in the paper. I looked in there and saw an Indian blanket. He was sitting on it like a chief.
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She stores so many of his words in her head that she feels as if she has become nothing more than a book he has written.
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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.
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In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.
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It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.
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I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.
