Written Quotes · Page 24

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

— Nicholas Jarecki

My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

— Harold Pinter

So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?

— Brian Ferneyhough

I've also never written anything really in LA.

— Paul Beatty

We've written something like 900 songs in all.

— Barry Mann

“Books are written through you, not by you”

— Gaurav Punj

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

— Thom Gunn

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

— Ibn Khaldun

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

— Adrian Mitchell

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

— Richard Russo

“Can I show all that I have written to my Beloved, the one for whom all I write is written?”

— Vipul Rikhi

Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

— Adam Jones

Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people.

— George Saunders

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable search and seizure, began in earnest under…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak -…

— Raina Telgemeier

I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind…

— Tom Wolfe

I've never written a song about DNA or anything that I work on. But I just think that DIY aspect, and the…

— Milo Aukerman

There have always been people who have written me off. They're not going away. I use that to motivate me. I'm driven…

— Ronda Rousey

I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.

— Deborah Moggach

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I started then to try and shape something rather than just express it and when I started to shape something and to…

— Edward Hirsch

And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so…

— Chuck Klosterman

The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter…

— Anthony Burgess

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that…

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written…

— Zooey Deschanel

My theory is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before…

— Sara Teasdale

I fear that I will do something to bring harm to those I love," Froi said. "So I follow their rules to…

— Melina Marchetta

The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have…

— Heinz Pagels

If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the story is very good…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

— Linda Ronstadt

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has…

— Elizabeth Kenny

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning…

— Jerome Lawrence

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played

— Mick Taylor

Actors don't request what scenes to be written in. That's just not how it works.

— Nicholas Gonzalez

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

— Robert Smith

Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

— Natalie Massenet