Written Quotes · Page 34

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.

— George W. Bush

How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

— Ferdowsi

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

— Edward Abbey

Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as…

— Kim Cattrall

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

— Peter Drucker

Warm Bodies' ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.

— Isaac Marion

The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've written 'Eclipsed' as a funny story. It is completely bonkers.

— Dominic Holland

if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I…

— Jamaica Kincaid

When you first start singing something after you've written it, it has this sort of sparkle to it. And if you capture…

— Jesse Harris

It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks...…

— Eugene Delacroix

Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out…

— Brandon Boyd

“I have written you a hundred letters, each one folded into the quiet between breaths, sealed with the weight of words that…

— Mason Carter

There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and…

— Demian Bichir

When you read a great book at one point in your life then in another part of your life, when you read…

— Keith David

Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please the seller. The interests of the buyer…

— Claude C. Hopkins

I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books…

— John Boyne

We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any…

— Catherine Camus

This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority,…

— Annie Besant

If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a…

— James Madison

I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on…

— Colson Whitehead

“Is there a bird among them, dear boy?” Charity asked innocently, peering not at the things on the desk, but at his…

— Judith McNaught

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There…

— Ernest Hemingway

I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains…

— Dan Chaon

Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.

— Ian Mckellen

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

— Leif Garrett

Most everything I've ever written has .been done to 'assignment.'

— Henry Mancini

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

— Horace

“History is always written by the winners...By its very nature, its always a one-sided account”

— Dan Brown

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

— Thomas Carlyle

I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.

— Raymond Cruz

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

— Carly Fiorina

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

— Alan Perlis

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

— Samuel Johnson

The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.

— Matthew Henry

The best songs I've written tend to 'write themselves' in some ways.

— Jelly Roll

Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.

— Michael Ignatieff

The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.

— Gottfried Leibniz

I have those (goals) written down, but don't want to discuss them. Right now, I just want to keep on improving.

— Justin Leonard

I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.

— Morley Callaghan