Written Quotes · Page 134

I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young…

— Jim Shepard

I seemed to have instinctually a strong idea of how the strip had to be written from the beginning. That changed too,…

— Jules Feiffer

I loved writing something people usually have - miscommunication, for example. Now that I've written a romance, I'm sure I'll write more:…

— Theodora Goss

“And all those boys of Europe born in those times, and thereabouts those times, Russian, French, Belgian, Serbian, Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh,…

— Sebastian Barry

Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education...Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and…

— David J. Skorton

I would love to be friends with Kendrick Lamar because I am just a huge fan of his music, I think he…

— Alana Haim

Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay,…

— Brian Eno

In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be…

— Anne Sexton

Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then…

— David Cross

... the Lord Jesus said, 'To those who are in bonds, Come out, and to those who are in prison, Go forth'…

— Ambrose

When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for…

— Vita Sackville-West

Could it be argued that if the Chinese revolution seems to be a response to the needs of rural society, whereas the…

— Eric A. Havelock

One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of…

— John Desmond Bernal

I write with the idea that nobody will care about what I've written; I publish with the idea that nobody will care…

— Lauren Grodstein

There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our…

— Steven Spielberg

To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly…

— Aldous Huxley

But, for the role of Sarah Linden, we saw everybody. Everybody wanted this role. Every female actor in town really wanted to…

— Veena Sud

We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I…

— William Joyce

We improv-ed scenes that didn't happen in the movie. We improv-ed the scenes that are written in the movie without the dialogue…

— Bruce Greenwood

The way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of…

— John Bolton

“Closed inside my compartment as if in a cubicle of some Egyptian tomb, I worked late into the night between New York…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read…

— Anne Graham Lotz

I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I…

— George R. R. Martin

I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may…

— Alice James

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish…

— Jonathan Sacks

It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like…

— Chuck Klosterman

To kill the misconception, I don’t think the songs we wrote before ‘Danger Days’ are bad songs by any means. In fact,…

— Frank Iero

I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't…

— August Wilson

Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly…

— Percival Everett

...one of hallmarks of a creative person is the ability to tolerate ambiguity, dissonance, inconsistency, things out of place. But one of…

— Ralph Caplan

I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of…

— Elaine Pagels

(Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that…

— James Fenton

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in…

— Andre Breton

In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the badly written…

— Etgar Keret

I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are…

— Denis Diderot

An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls…

— Maurice Sendak

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing.…

— Jackson Browne

Mark and jay Duplass really like to improvise. Even if we beg them to go back to the script, they invariably ask…

— Amanda Peet