Written Quotes · Page 5

Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“by any means without the prior written consent”

— Nancy Bush

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

— Arnold Schoenberg

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

— Philip Levine

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don't go anywhere.

— Evan Daugherty

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

— Anne Enright

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

— P. L. Travers

I've never really [written] something that was inspired.

— Wyclef Jean

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

— Francois Rabelais

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

— Judith Martin

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

— Anonymous

When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.

— Ma Jian

One of my favourite Japanese cartoons is 'Yasuragi no Yakata,' written by the famous Fujiko Fujio.

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy…

— Ross Perot

Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.

— Ne-Yo

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his…

— Jack F. Matlock, Jr

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his…

— Leonard Cohen

The only time I get upset by things written about me - when people write irresponsible things about my weight... I appreciate…

— Victoria Beckham

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with…

— James McBride

I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward,…

— Laurie Graham

I almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like…

— Zoe Kazan

We all had, at some point, matches we should have won and we didn't and that's the game. That's just the way…

— Amelie Mauresmo

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of…

— Charles Darwin

'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel…

— Michael Koryta

I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only…

— Thaddeus Stevens

“These essays were written at various times over a thirty-year period, to express special discoveries, to serve special needs. But they all…

— Ray Bradbury

We are not called upon to enter into controversy with those who hold false theories. Controversy is unprofitable. Christ never entered into…

— Ellen G. White

A [spatial, temporal] work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in…

— Dan Graham

There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was…

— Pritam Chakraborty

“I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I…

— G.K. Chesterton

I write in Urdu and everything is written by my hand.

— Gulzar

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

— Meg Rosoff

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

— Tom Clancy

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

— Barry Mann

Well I've written four beauty books as well.

— Joan Collins

I've always written short stories.

— Michael McDonald

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

— Brian Eno

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

— Carl Sandburg