Written Quotes · Page 25

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

— John McGahern

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.

— James Salter

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

— Alex Lifeson

I've probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

— Jim Sturgess

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

— Bill Gates

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

— Seamus Heaney

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

— Chris Crutcher

Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

— Felicia Hemans

I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students…

— David Rubenstein

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes…

— Len Wein

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written…

— Lynn Johnston

Grace Kelly was written after these musicians were trying to mold me into what I should be. I was really angry and…

— Mika

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were…

— Helen Vendler

I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring…

— Archie Panjabi

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is…

— Yann Martel

I'm not particularly worried by any of the songs we've written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff…

— Bernard Fanning

Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink…

— Walter Murch

The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It…

— William Galston

Legal documents have mistrust written all over them. It's unfortunate, but the human DNA is so tuned to kind of taking you…

— Karan Johar

“Looking at the sky, he suddenly saw that it had become black. Then white again, but with great rippling circles. The circles…

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive…

— John Calvin

The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter.…

— Robert E. Howard

I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous…

— Kate Braverman

Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet…

— Mary Karr

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

— H. G. Wells

“So nothing will ever be written down again. Perhaps the act of writing is necessary only when nothing happens.”

— Kōbō Abe

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

— William Faulkner

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

— Cyril Connolly

If there's a poster boy for the fact that all essays are written through personae, it's Crèvecoeur.

— John D'Agata

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.

— Randy Johnson

If you've written something that moves you and frightens you, you just can't take it back.

— Viv Albertine

Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.

— Susanna Phillips

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

— Neil Young

What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?

— George Steiner

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

— Jack White

Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.

— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

— Siri Hustvedt

Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.

— Marianne Williamson

Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

— D. W. Griffith

Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

— Marianne Moore