Written Quotes · Page 30

"God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.

— Macklemore

The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.

— William Faulkner

I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.

— Don DeLillo

Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way.

— Franz Kafka

It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

— Virginia Woolf

History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.

— Steve Rushin

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

— Ernest Hemingway

I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

— Bruce Barton

When I go into the editing process, I re-look at the original intuitive thoughts and then it becomes the written performance or…

— Sue Tompkins

So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is…

— Graham Greene

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were…

— Peter Warlock

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is…

— Ernestine Rose

The resurrection asserts a truth which is by no means always written legibly for all men on the face of nature. It…

— Henry Parry Liddon

A learned man is not one who uses complicated and difficult words in spoken and written language, but one who uses words…

— Vikrant Parsai

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and…

— Jamais Cascio

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say,…

— Charles Baudelaire

Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to…

— Rex Murphy

That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and…

— Justin Cronin

If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise,…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of…

— Walter Dean Myers

You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a…

— Michael Cunningham

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify…

— Alfred North Whitehead

First-book novelists and storywriters haven't yet failed and so it's easier to publish them - you can gamble on a success. Whereas…

— Frederick Busch

Some of what these pamphlets [of astrological forecasts] say will turn out to be true, but most of it time and experience…

— Johannes Kepler

I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.

— George Bancroft

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed,…

— Czeslaw Milosz

Technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age.

— Charles Duhigg

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

— William Hazlitt

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

— Isabel Allende

Things like 'Lucky Man' were never written to even be a record, let alone a hit record.

— Greg Lake

I've written several pilots that haven't gone, so that's why you haven't seen any.

— Rob Riggle

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.

— Henrik Ibsen

It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict.

— Howard Charles

'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill.

— Michael Ignatieff

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

— Michel de Montaigne

“the end is already written, it’s just a matter of getting there.”

— Marie Hall

The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.

— Julie Salamon

I tend to play characters that arent supposed to black or written black.

— Megalyn Echikunwoke

I've never paid much attention to those who have written me off.

— Humza Yousaf

Live each day, as if it we're your last. It's written in the stars, your destiny is cast.

— Elvis Presley