Written Quotes · Page 51

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.

— Lynn Abbey

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

— Carter Burwell

Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.

— Jeff Dunham

I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.

— Masiela Lusha

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then…

— William H. Macy

I don't have anything against this Jesus guy, but has he written, directed, and starred in his own movie?

— Zach Braff

Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.

— Orson Scott Card

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.

— Chris Rock

What really put me over the top was receiving a packet of hundreds of hand-written thank you notes, telling me how the…

— Scott Cohen

I have written and spoken my thoughts over many years. Now I'm on new ground and spirit. I want to bring these…

— Ram Dass

I guess I've written enough songs now. I've been doing this for so many years, that it's kinda cool just to be…

— King Khan

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written…

— Margaret Mahy

I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to…

— Albert Einstein

When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want…

— J. A. Jance

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more…

— Enid Blyton

Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told…

— Rufus Wainwright

There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them.…

— Arthur Machen

It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some…

— Paddy Considine

Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something I've been…

— Martin Amis

“He remembered the good times with them all, and the quarrels. They always picked the finest places to have the quarrels. And…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside me. I see people walking through…

— Markus Zusak

I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all…

— Frank A. Vanderlip

How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written…

— Marvin Minsky

Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.

— Mick Garris

Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra.

— Sophie Germain

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

— Charles Dickens

“The only book worthy of being written, is a finished one with interest.”

— Angel M.B. Chadwick

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

— Brian Tracy

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

— Ayn Rand

What we shall be is written, and we are so. Headless of God or Evil,Pen, wrote on! By the first day all…

— Omar Khayyam

I have written, and I do write, but the truth is I don't love it. I can't stand the process!

— David Hewlett

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

— Joyce Brothers

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

— Beverly Cleary

Normally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.

— St. Lucia

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

— Ralph Steadman

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better.

— Randy Newman

“Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind. And mind can only see things that already written in heart.”

— Toba Beta

“we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”

— Paulo Coelho