Written Quotes
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Well, Peter Rowan and I had plans to form a band when he left Bill Monroe. I always thought it was going to be a bluegrass band, but I guess when Peter left Bill Monroe he had had enough of bluegrass. He had written some songs and of course the Beatles were a big influence back then. So, we decided to something different and it ended up being that.
David Grisman -
I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.
William Gibson
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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.
Bernard Moitessier -
Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 books I've written.
Nat Hentoff -
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!
Lauren Bacall -
I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or my memories from a different perspective. It's always helped me realize the grass isn't always greener and how I need to live more in the moment. My songwriting is a documentation of whatever's happening in my life at that point in time.
Chuck Ragan -
I think 'Bittersweet' is one of the best songs ever written. The idea of it just really spoke to me.
Joshua Ostrander -
Shouldn't the commandments be re-written? No, they should be re-read!
Richard L. Evans
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Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.
Neville Brody -
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
William Hazlitt -
All those songs are totally timeless. They'll always stand up because they came from a real place. They weren't crafted songs. They were written from the heart.
Shooter Jennings -
A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated.
George Fernandes -
The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
The first line of I Am The Walrus was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Take the time you need to learn the craft. Then sit down and write. When you hand over your completed manuscript to a trusted reader, keep an open mind. Edit, edit, and edit again. After you have written a great query letter, go to AgentQuery.com. This site is an invaluable resource that lists agents in your genre. Submit, accept rejection as part of the process, and submit again. And, of course, never give up.
Kathleen Grissom -
I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.
Dickey Betts -
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.
Aristotle -
I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
Ernest Hemingway -
Chapter books are often written in series and kids have come to expect that they'll come out once a year, so publishers want to keep the momentum going. It's the kind of art I love to make, except that the time frame is really nutty.
Carson Ellis -
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.
Ernestine Rose
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The true word of God is written in our heart.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions -
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
Ben Yagoda -
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.
Erica Jong -
... 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.
Bliss Perry