Written Quotes · Page 49

One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.

— Jack Paar

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt…

— May Sarton

“I write because the book I want to read has not been written yet.”

— Richard HR Penn

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

— Arthur Helps

It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!

— Claude Monet

“Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.”

— Austin Penman

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could…

— Edmund White

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

— Galileo Galilei

There is abundant evidence that the Bible, though written by men, is not the product of the human mind. By countless multitudes…

— John Ambrose Fleming

I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not…

— Junot Diaz

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time…

— Katherine Paterson

People who've written about Abraham Lincoln's writing emphasize how logical he was. His writing was a syllogistic tool. He would say, if…

— George Saunders

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a…

— Karl Kraus

None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal…

— Paula Danziger

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or…

— James Rollins

Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual…

— Rick Warren

I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees…

— Chip Conley

If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile…

— Washington Irving

I'd just written the book Ocean Of Sound, and this terrible thing happened in my life: my wife committed suicide. I was…

— David Toop

Thoughts for Young Men abounds in reliable counsel and says - with a rare combination of seriousness and graciousness - the very…

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I…

— Maggie Shayne

As currently written, the laws require certain manufacturers and users of such chemicals to report any and all environmental releases-either accidental or…

— Sandra Steingraber

The American Constitution is a written instrument full and complete in itself. No Court in America, no Congress, no President, can add…

— Frederick Douglass

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why you won an election and why you didn't is a subject of, you know, books that get written 20 years later.

— Rudy Giuliani

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!

— Janis Ian

The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.

— Antonin Artaud

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

— James Taylor

There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.

— Sam Manekshaw

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

— Ruskin Bond

I haven't written a brochure yet. It's killing me. I know I have a brochure or pamphlet in me yet.

— Alan Zweibel

The Dream Act as it's been written originally is too broad, to be honest. It basically would apply to too many people.

— Marco Rubio

Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth…

— Chief Seattle

A lot has been written about the merits and problems with detox but it is definitely worth it overall.

— Lee Haney

Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.

— Harold Brodkey

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.

— Syd Barrett

Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind.

— Bruce Springsteen

I’ve written a lot and brainstorm ideas, and I plan on pursuing them very soon.

— Logan Lerman

Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.

— Barbara Park

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

— Zane Grey