Written Quotes
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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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What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most?
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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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I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it.
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Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.
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The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.
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No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it.
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The entire Quran is a big joke. If it was not so violent, it would be the biggest comic book ever written.
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Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.
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History is written by the winners.
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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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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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How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.
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It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.
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The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.
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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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The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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.
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Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.
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Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
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Do you tell me that the Bible is against our rights? Then I say that our claims do not rest upon a book written no one knows when, or by whom. Do you tell me what Paul or Peter says on the subject? Then again I reply that our claims do not rest on the opinions of any one, not even on those of Paul and Peter, . . . Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
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The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
