Written Quotes · Page 44

“First drafts don’t have to be perfect. They just have to be written.”

— Anonymous

There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.

— Malala Yousafzai

I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

— George R. R. Martin

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

— Tao Lin

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

— Judy Blume

The Slobs were written in a very 2D way, but Kathy Burke brought a touching quality to all her characters.

— Harry Enfield

I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.

— Dan Fogelberg

I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like…

— Emmanuelle Seigner

It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the…

— George Saunders

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because…

— Henry Petroski

I'd been involved in journalism for a long time - my dad's a journalist, he's written many books, and when I was…

— Colum McCann

Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour,…

— John Wesley

There isn't a thought or feeling that doesn't alter or deepen when written. We are a writing animal. That is why all…

— Carol Bly

Judy Blume especially sort of broke the boundaries of what is appropriate and what should be written about - what teenagers are…

— Sara Shepard

I think I learned a lot about collaboration and about joint creativity with other people. It is honestly so much fun and…

— Bridgit Mendler

A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written…

— Kiefer Sutherland

As the Nazi regime developed over the years, the whole structure of decision-making was changed. At first there were laws. Then there…

— Raul Hilberg

I got a part opposite Edward G. Robinson in a play called Middle of The Night, which Paddy Cheyafsky had written. It…

— Gena Rowlands

What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able…

— Linda Sue Park

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but…

— Anne Frank

The older I get, the more I think it's this listening. You listen for it, and you have a bit of patience.…

— Nick Lowe

I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.

— Anton Chekhov

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

— James Lafferty

You don't want the men to be written in a three-dimensional way and the women, not.

— Natalie Dormer

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

— Edward Abbey

When I'm watching South Park I don't think it's written by neo-Nazis. They know exactly what they're doing.

— Eric Andre

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

— Vinoba Bhave

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

— Katee Sackhoff

One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.

— Sjon

“They say everything that can be written has been written. I say we are just getting started.”

— Andrew Barger

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

— William Beckett

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

— James Anthony Froude

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.”

— G.K. Chesterton

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

— Ernest Hemingway

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

— Henning Mankell