Written Quotes · Page 16

The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull.

— Judith Crist

Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the…

— Paula Sharp

If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or…

— Seth Godin

One of my favorite albums of all time is Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Every song is superbly written, performed, and produced. He is…

— Daryl Stuermer

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

— Mark Haddon

I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially…

— Jay Baruchel

He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."

— Thomas Aquinas

I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of…

— Jacob Lawrence

'The Observer's Very Short List' is another example of how the Observer Media Group offers its readers the most cutting-edge information, available…

— Jared Kushner

I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.

— Truman Capote

A lot of '2112' was written in the back seat of a car and in cold dressing rooms while on tour in…

— Alex Lifeson

The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you…

— James A. Michener

Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.

— Barbara Park

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about…

— Helen Vendler

Fate is a story that's been written for you by somebody else. By your parent's genes, by what happened to you when…

— Alberto Villoldo

Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their…

— Nick Tosches

The fact is I don't write songs, per se; I've written a couple here and there, but that's not my forte.

— John Dolmayan

As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then,…

— Aaron Sorkin

The books I've written the fastest were the best reviewed and sold the best.

— Michael Connelly

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has…

— Peter Warlock

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all…

— Justine Larbalestier

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing…

— George Bernard Shaw

In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion…

— John Lennon

AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive…

— Saint Augustine

Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs,…

— Marvin Harris