Written Quotes

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations.

Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.

We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour.

Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.

When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary.

One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.

So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.

It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

Going from the written, flat word to the three-dimensional object, that was one of the more enriching things that I've done.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

History should be written as philosophy.

My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write everything well.

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

I don't think anything you've written is immortal as yet.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.