Written Quotes · Page 47

I've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person.

— Erik Rutan

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

— Don DeLillo

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to…

— Toni Morrison

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

— Lytton Strachey

I dream of summing everything up in the greatest sentence ever written.

— Mason Cooley

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

— Jorge Luis Borges

If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.

— Michael Crichton

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

— Ernest Hemingway

There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really…

— Adam Pally

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence,…

— Dan Simmons

When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it -…

— Jodi Picoult

All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some…

— Raina Telgemeier

'Black Hole Sun' was written in a car when I was driving home from the studio one night. Pretty much everything that…

— Chris Cornell

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

— A. S. Byatt

Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests, and have to pass the tests…

— Joycelyn Elders

I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being…

— Simon McBurney

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous…

— John Bolton

Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In…

— K. M. Soehnlein

In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified…

— Maurice Ravel

I've written songs before, and I don't want to share them with anybody. It's really personal for me, that sort of creative…

— Jeremy Jordan

You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go…

— Ernest Hemingway

My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences…

— Kate Voegele

The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.

— Richard Brautigan

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

— Marilyn Manson

“Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC) The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...”

— Virgil

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

— Alicia Keys

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

— Jane Espenson

You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

— Bill Joy

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

— Voltaire

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

— Katey Sagal

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is…

— Sue Townsend

My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality!

— Johannes Brahms

No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.

— Swami Vivekananda

Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.

— Mickey Rourke

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

— Wole Soyinka

I have some very good friends who've written memoirs, but it's not for me. It's just not a format that I'm interested…

— Justine Bateman

I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.

— Mike Mills

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

— Maurice Sendak