Written Quotes · Page 40

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

— Patricia Hampl

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

— William Gibson

Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.

— Dylan Moran

You will never get anything in your life which is not written in your destiny.

— Daisy Shah

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

— J. J. Abrams

I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written

— Todd Barry

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.

— Christopher Hitchens

The show was written just for us. We all thought we were the prettiest and the funniest.

— Dixie Carter

The poetry I love is written with someone's voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone's voice.…

— Robert Pinsky

There are poems that are never written, that simply move across the mind like skywriting on a still day: slowly the first…

— Linda Pastan

Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend,…

— Berkeley Breathed

The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature.…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldnt…

— Anthony Jeselnik

I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally,…

— Kitty Kelley

That very document [Constitution] does little to serve people when Supreme Court decisions are written so that even high-priced lawyers can't figure…

— Mike DeWine

But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of…

— Jessica Maxwell

I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over…

— Learned Hand

In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses…

— Elizabeth Spires

A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through…

— Robert Benchley

The first song I wrote and had published was titled "Just As Long As That Someone Is You". It was written in…

— Mickey Newbury

One of the reasons so many nonfiction books are so boring is because what they've done, very diligently, is fulfill the terms…

— Geoff Dyer

But Jesus wanted the crowd to know, look, 'John's (the baptist) the one who got this whole thing started.' In verse ten…

— Steven Furtick

If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the…

— Margaret Atwood

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

— Debbie Harry

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

— Charles Thomas Newton

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

— Pete Seeger

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

— Alexander Pope

The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible.

— Louis B. Mayer

We've never written anything to have success with it. We've written songs that we love.

— Nuno Bettencourt

The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.”

— Alice Hoffman

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

— Salman Rushdie

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

— Thomas Jefferson

“I could have written my own ass a love letter right then and there.”

— Alessandra Thomas

The entire Quran is a big joke. If it was not so violent, it would be the biggest comic book ever written.

— Ali Sina

When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'

— Bryan Batt

“We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.”

— André Aciman

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

— F. Sionil Jose

Victoria Wood's 'Dinnerladies' is just exceptionally written; every single line is a setup or a punchline.

— Rosie Jones