Written Quotes
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The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.
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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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I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been 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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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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. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .
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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.
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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
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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.
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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.
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I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
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Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.
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Why did you want an addendum to what you had already written and signed?
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In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.
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It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!
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I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh.
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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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I think 'Bittersweet' is one of the best songs ever written. The idea of it just really spoke to me.
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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
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When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that they see the song.
