Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
I've written so many things over the years that I don't want to go back to being just a scriptwriter. I'm in… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that,… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way.… — Marc Guggenheim Copy Share Image
If you don't get a laugh I immediately think it's somebody else's fault. You can always blame the material. But when it's… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
I live to the rhythm of my country and I cannot remain on the sidelines. I want to be here. I want… — Elena Poniatowska Copy Share Image
Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical — Loretta Swit Copy Share Image
I knew that Sylvester Stallone's involvement would outweigh everything else from the film. I think people went into Creed expecting a boxing… — Bun B Copy Share Image
I think a lot of Civil War stuff is written - As they say, history is written by the victors. And one… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all… — Frank A. Vanderlip Copy Share Image
Every single tune you know from the 1940s until the 1970s was written, arranged, and demoed in the Brill Building. OK, maybe… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
The Gospels were written to present the life and teachings of Jesus in ways that would be appropriate to different readerships, and… — John Drane Copy Share Image
Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I like the fact that everyone is nostalgic for vinyl, and I'm being nostalgic for CDs, which are like the new outdated… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
“At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me! — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
