Written Quotes · Page 18

I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not…

— Philip Larkin

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less…

— Anonymous

Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In…

— K. M. Soehnlein

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

— Edna O'Brien

Its different being a director. I suppose, especially if its a story youve written and you feel compelled to tell, in some…

— Paddy Considine

I write in Urdu and everything is written by my hand.

— Gulzar

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

— Leonardo da Vinci

[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress,…

— Thomas Jefferson

I truly love [Andy Serkis]. He's an amazing guy. Yeah, I think that when we really synced up was when he came…

— Woody Harrelson

Whatever was written in the media was beyond me. The only thing I could control was getting fit.

— Andrew Flintoff

Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over…

— Raymond Chandler

Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet…

— Jacques Monod

Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the…

— Ryan Adams

Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think.

— Neil Young

I want to know a lot of things I don't already know -especially as the things I do know, if written down,…

— Richard Tuttle

How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling…

— Stanley Kubrick

Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of…

— Jon Weber

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're…

— Nina Simone

With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every…

— Katharine Sergeant Angell White

I have been a comic book fan nearly all my life. My fascination began as a refuge after my father left because…

— Andrew Aydin

I think for me, the only depressing music is music that doesn't give credence to those kinds of feelings, music that's just…

— Conor O'Brien

I had written three books [Games of Throne], at that point, and each one of them was better than the other. At…

— George R. R. Martin

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

— Alexander Chee

I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only…

— Thaddeus Stevens

Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not…

— Nuala O'Faolain