Written Quotes · Page 57

What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.……

— Noah Richler

The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

— Joe Biden

When liberal celebs stammer out a litany of shopworn bleats about the administration's attempt to turn America into a theocratic prison state,…

— James Lileks

I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who…

— Anita Loos

I would advise you to get all of your blessings written and preserve them...I do feel to enjoin it upon you to…

— Wilford Woodruff

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

— Seamus Heaney

I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller…

— Charlie Hunnam

An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

— George Gershwin

This book [the Bible] speaks both the voice of God and the voice of humanity, for there is told in it the…

— Woodrow Wilson

Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read.…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

— Raymond Queneau

I think one of the big questions for many [Bernie] Sanders supporters is, are [Hillary Clinton's] words and what's written in paper…

— Jonathan Tasini

In Alien, Sigourney Weaver's role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie's role was written for Tom Cruise. These things,…

— Olivia Wilde

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

— Virginia Woolf

I'm superstitious about the paper that I use, for example. I've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size…

— Philip Pullman

It's usually very, very hard for me to pick up a script that was written and try and see myself as a…

— Eric Bana

Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing,…

— Irvine Welsh

My salvation does not hinge on my emotions. I have an official record. I have the Word of God: "These things have…

— Adrian Rogers

I was one of those guys, you know, playing and singing, and there was no reason for me to write a song,…

— John Mellencamp

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always…

— W. G. Sebald

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

— Andrzej Wajda

Witches is being sold as an account of the Belvoir scandals, but in truth, Tracy Borman has written a thorough and beautifully…

— Bella Bathurst

Every day on the set, things change. You move things around. The actors are creating the roles and bringing them to life,…

— Summer Glau

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written

— Judy Collins