Written Quotes · Page 37

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

— Lawrence Durrell

Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.

— Dani Shapiro

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less…

— George W. Bush

A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated.

— George Fernandes

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

— Samuel Johnson

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

— Edward Sapir

I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.

— Camila Cabello

There are a lot I'm proud of, and a lot I wish the hell I'd never written.

— Rod Serling

Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become…

— Carol Gilligan

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is…

— Amy Ray

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing…

— Matthew Bourne

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've…

— Simon Armitage

The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's…

— Patrick Carney

I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the…

— Alexander Chee

While I may not get any money from Linux, I get a huge personal satisfaction from having written something that people really…

— Linus Torvalds

There's always been a lot of negative stuff written about me. That's why I don't pay any attention to the critics. They've…

— Eddie Murphy

There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we…

— Will Self

I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're…

— Edward St Aubyn

I met Glenn [ Greenwald] briefly in 2009. We were both guests on Real Time With Bill Maher. I was the show's…

— Zachary Quinto

The Greek idea of fate is moira, which means "portion." Fate rules a portion of your life. But there is more to…

— James Hillman

My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written…

— Vandana Shiva

The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth…

— Mary Ritter Beard

A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back…

— Matt Haig

I'm not really a director or producer for hire. There's lots of big gigs out there, but I'm not looking to do…

— Mike White

Ive probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

— Jim Sturgess

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

— Sara Gruen

A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.

— Agyness Deyn

“The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

— Allen Tate

I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.

— Bryan Cranston

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

— Geoffrey Beene

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

— Jane Austen

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

I saw it written and I saw it say Pink moon is on its way And none of you stand so tall…

— Nick Drake

I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.

— Dan Gilroy

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

— Tom Robbins

I don't know if I've ever written a song that wasn't on assignment.

— Henry Mancini

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

— Edna O'Brien

I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.

— James Salter

One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written.

— Edith Wharton