Written Quotes · Page 42

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

— Robert Graves

Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

— Neville Brody

One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.

— Danielle de Niese

I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.

— George Michael

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

— Peter Singer

“Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.”

— Ben Johnson

I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it…

— John Edgar Wideman

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

— Nora Roberts

If a man writes a brilliant enough play in praise of something that is universally loathed, the play, if it is good…

— Edward Albee

I have empathy for the person who is being interviewed and written about with all kinds of misperceptions and misconceptions and flat-out…

— Kathie Lee Gifford

The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents…

— Douglas Coupland

I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

If Allah has written for you happiness, no one can steal that from you, and if He has written for your heart…

— Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni

What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she…

— Oprah Winfrey

Everyone, everyone is equal. Everyone has a place. No one is written off because there is worth and goodness in every life.…

— Paul Ryan

[Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's…

— Jay Roach

I realize how much I rely on the actors to really know the lines because I tend to forget what they are…

— Noah Baumbach

Scores do not reveal the most important facts about a wine. The written commentary (tasting notes) that accompanies the ratings is a…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There…

— Jack London

Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is…

— Nathaniel Branden

Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the…

— Ebenezer Elliott

Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger…

— John Dos Passos

I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that…

— Beverly Cleary

One of the ways in which writers most show their inventiveness is in the things they tell us about how they write.…

— Philip Pullman

I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

— Tom Hayden

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

— Tom Stoppard

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.

— Anthony Burgess

You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.

— Giovannino Guareschi

I'm not ashamed to admit that I've written some really bad songs and I've had some bad performances.

— Lindi Ortega

“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.

— David Hilbert

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

— Kenneth Koch

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.

— Paul Greengrass

“As for your vision, & what is or isn't written, Stay faithful until it's fateful.”

— Suhaib Rumi

“I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.”

— Dorothy Parker

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

— Billy Sherwood

I've only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I've written all of them.

— Joseph Heller

My denim jacket had 'I love GNR' and 'I love AC/DC' written all over it, but I always came back to swing.

— Paloma Faith

And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

— Laura Wade