Things Written Quotes

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

— Helen Hunt

I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.

— James Salter

I would rather have bad things written about me than be forgotten.

— Pamela Harriman

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

— Joseph Wambaugh

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

— Thomas Carlyle

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

— Virginia Woolf

I am a very slow reader. I have to have things written in a pithy way.

— Matt Hancock

Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.

— Margaret Atwood

For me, it's always just been, 'What's true to me? What do I really think here?' And that's how things get written…

— Esther Povitsky

Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but…

— Benjamin Franklin

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but…

— Mary MacLane

“You won’t forget that,” Claire assured her. “I like things written down,” Tabitha mumbled. “Then you’ve got them for good.”

— Margaret Mahy

I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the…

— Alexander Chee

It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are…

— Sienna Miller

I think a lot of things are written from experience, but then you become a writer and talk about other people's experience…

— Eddie Vedder

I don't know what people who I've never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things…

— Ben Elton

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I…

— Jason Katims

“Odette nodded at my notebook, where I was writing as she spoke. 'Do the people in America really want to read this?…

— Philip Gourevitch

I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path…

— Maya Tiwari

The thing is, the way we write is all jams and bits and pieces that get pieced together and sometimes things are…

— Danny Carey

Do you think that civilization advances because of things written in books? Not a bit of what is written in books ever…

— Walter Russell

That the things that have impacted me most are not news articles written by older people that I would have no relation…

— Rowan Blanchard

I was starting to recognize a corner I was driving myself into: that all writing could do was refer to things that…

— Vito Acconci

I have a few things that I have written over the years that haven't been made, but I sort of feel like…

— Steven Zaillian

Unfortunately, I've been bad at preserving things I'd written as a kid.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

If things were already written in advance, football would not be such a beautiful sport.

— Blaise Matuidi

“Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations.”

— Santosh Kalwar

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

— Miguel de Cervantes

I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.

— Thomas Carlyle

Nobody has had more awful things written about them than me.

— Brigitte Nielsen

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

— David Allan Coe

There have been so many things written about me that are untrue and horrifying.

— Blake Lively

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

— Paul Auster

My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.

— Anne Rice

“These things I have written to you so you may know that you have eternal life.”

— Apostle John

“The most beautiful things cannot be written, unfortunately. Fortunately. We would have to be able to write with our eyes, with wild…

— Hélène Cixous

For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't…

— Andrew Luck

You really have to think a lot before speaking, and the things that are written about you, sometimes you might not like…

— Kriti Sanon

“Anything said is gone as soon as it leaves my lips. Things written down at least have a chance to leave a…

— Chris Dietzel

I seem to be drawn to these smaller forms, and I seem to be drawn to things that can be written and…

— Jenny Zhang