Written Quotes · Page 43

I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.

— Vestal McIntyre

Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.

— Isaac Watts

I am proudest of that first novel, 'Trust,' of anything I have written. I don't think I've had such intense energy since.

— Cynthia Ozick

...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.

— Arthur Koestler

I've never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of…

— Autre Ne Veut

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

— John Eldredge

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

— Paul Auster

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

— Janeane Garofalo

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants…

— Johann Georg Hamann

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98…

— Linda Ronstadt

I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it…

— Sarah Ruhl

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to…

— Anonymous

The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of…

— Noah Webster

Then I found another one, grandpa's poem. It turned out it had been written by Emily Brontë and it wasn't my grandfather's…

— Edward Hirsch

There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in…

— Anchee Min

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would…

— Marvin Hamlisch

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old -…

— Henry David Thoreau

I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people.…

— Linda Kaplan Thaler

I went back into the older stories and reworked them, because I became a better writer over the years and could spot…

— Tom Barbash

We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in…

— David Mamet

I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to…

— Ray Bradbury

A man is likewise form and expression, a written sign thrown unto boundless matter, an undifferentiated word of what is. I've therefore…

— Mohammed Dib

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I…

— Corey Taylor

Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks…

— Henry Louis Gates

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

— Tom Clancy

The appeal of writing a romance was that I'd never written one before the The Thorn and The Blossom.

— Theodora Goss

The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

— Eric Schmidt

The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity.

— Bryan Fischer

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

— Robert the Bruce

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

— George Santayana

“Her short path through life had been written and it was not her right to know the meaning, only the outcome.”

— Stuart Land

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

— Mac Davis

I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage.

— David Cross

Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.

— Jon Krakauer

I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

— Mark Twain

As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and…

— Demetri Martin

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

— Matthea Harvey

A lot of songs we've written have been political, but they're also personally political.

— Curt Smith

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

— Robert Ringer

Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the…

— Dolly Parton