Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written]. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction. — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I want to write just as much as Kanye may have for whomever Kanye has written for. — PartyNextDoor Copy Share Image
Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop… — Ezra Taft Benson 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
Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
I value my correspondence with writers...I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him -… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I changed my mind because of a scene between Howard Cunningham and Richie. The father-son situation was written so movingly, I fell… — Tom Bosley Copy Share Image
I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The irony is that Iraq actually has one of the richest and most sophisticated cuisines in the world. So many classic American… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“ My most ardent wish is that you, and everyone like you, will look up. That you’ll do so and never be… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Never before have I written so long a letter. I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image