Written Quotes
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Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.
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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.
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I knew a pure heart who refused tot be mistrustful.... He had written at his doorstep: "From wherever you are, enter and be welcome". Who do you think responded to this lovely invitation? The militia, who made themselves at home and gutted him.
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He is the greatest influence in the world today. There is... a fifth Gospel being written - the work of Jesus Christ in the hearts and lives of men and nations.
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Want to know the biggest lie ever written? 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.
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I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.
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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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Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.
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People who are offended by the Ten Commandments have a deeper problem than the stone that it's written on, I think.
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Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.
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Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.
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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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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
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When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.
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It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.
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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
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Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.
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He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."
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In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.
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I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.
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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 love the songs we've written together [with Ivo Moring] and believe that Rock music is coming back with a vengeance. There are a lot of new and exciting things on the horizon and the next chapter is going to be amazing.
