Written Quotes
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My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.
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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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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
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Why did you want an addendum to what you had already written and signed?
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... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.
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History is written by the winners.
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I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
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Yes, I saw Twilight - my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the 'film' was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau's 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu and told her, 'Now that's a vampire film!' And that goes for all of you! Watch Nosferatu instead!
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Written by a woman automatically is better.
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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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When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.
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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
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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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I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written
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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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I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.
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Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.
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A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated.
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I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.
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The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.
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Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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In every story I've written with Batman, there's an element of justice - you never want to have the story end on a defeatist or a cynical note.
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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!
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Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
