Written Quotes · Page 27

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

— C. V. Wedgwood

I've written a lot of songs that I really love, plenty for an album.

— Ruel

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

— Heather Brooke

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

— John Selden

When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.

— Rebecca West

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

— Leo Ornstein

I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four…

— Paul Auster

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

— Jonathan Coe

Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I…

— Adam Gopnik

I'm superstitious about the paper that I use, for example. I've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size…

— Philip Pullman

When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before…

— Alan Price

Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature…

— Erik Naggum

Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy,…

— Wei Jingsheng

I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens.…

— Regina Hall

It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal…

— Jonathan Swift

Andy Harp's RETRIBUTION is a stunner: a blow to the gut and shot of adrenaline. Here is a novel written with authentic…

— James Rollins

I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more…

— William Jones

The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

While He [the Lord Jesus] was sitting alone by the well, 'There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water' (John 4:7).…

— Gregory Palamas

“Five actors playing allotted parts on a set stage; and now he, for whom no part had been written, had walked onto…

— Evangeline Walton

Revolutions existed in history, books were written about them, and lectures given: they were complicated phenomena, scientific, remote. While here, the riot…

— Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia

Maybe the realisation of the full human potential is the utopian thing. Maybe that is our collective struggle, is to find a…

— Chris Pine

The title of Christian is a reproach to us, if we estrange ourselves from Him after whom we are denominated. The name…

— William Wilberforce

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.

— Leonard Bernstein

“She is a poem. She is an old one, a new one, one waiting to be written. She is.”

— N'Zuri Za Austin

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books.

— Philip Kotler

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

— Sevyn Streeter

My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves.

— Elisabeth of Wied

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.

— Ne-Yo

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy…

— Ross Perot

I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

— Virginia Woolf

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

— Bayard Taylor

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

— Franz Kafka

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

— Vasily Grossman

Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

— Anne Lamott