Written Quotes

The written word is everything.

— John Drinkwater

Maktub" (It is written.)

— Paulo Coelho

“Written words can also sing.”

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Written on the bullet.

— Flyleaf

“It is written.”

— Jasper Fforde

Written by me :P

— Anonymous

“Nothing is written.”

— Lawrence of Arabia

History is written by winners.

— Alex Haley

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

— Irwin Shaw

“To hell with everything I myself have ever written.”

— William Carlos Williams

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

— Dave Mustaine

There is no story unless you've written it.

— Hunter S. Thompson

What can be said, should never be written

— Adolf Hitler

When you catch an adjective, kill it.

— Mark Twain

Nature is written in mathematical language.

— Galileo Galilei

I have been written off my whole career.

— Diego Sanchez

A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.

— Sri Chinmoy

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word,

— Laura Linney

The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing…

— Catullus

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.

— Marc Almond

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

— Robert Frost

We're supposed to have guns. It says so in the Bible; and the second greatest book ever written, the Texas State Constitution.

— George W. Bush

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

— Vince Gilligan

“It's written in our DNA somewhere: our children first, the rest of the world second.”

— Rachel Caine

There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a…

— Anne Michaels

The highest praise a writer can give another is to say he wishes he had written his book. I wish I had…

— Tony Hillerman

The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image. Not to make you a…

— Howard G. Hendricks

I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject…

— Brian Crozier

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral…

— Jodi Picoult

If people stop being interested it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing.…

— Tom Odell

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single…

— Adam Johnson

The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it.…

— Susan Cheever

I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom…

— Jennifer Armentrout

The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now…

— Kathryn Flett

Zamunda represent everything that is kewl and real about vagabonding…being the person that discovered Zamunda (for independent travelers) during the research of…

— Rolf Potts

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.…

— Joe Strummer

With my two brothers, Jean-Marie and Joel, I wrote a two-page story and wanted to make some kind of movie. We met…

— Eric Cantona

I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what…

— Stacy Schiff

I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a…

— Preity Zinta