Written Quotes · Page 59

“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

All music written by a Christian should be as integrated as everything else done by a Christian.

— Larry Norman

“He had written it down at last, but it made no difference. The therapy had not worked.”

— George Orwell

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about…

— Helen Vendler

It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful.

— Tobias Lindholm

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

— Jack London

The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.

— Mark Millar

I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.

— Truman Capote

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you…

— Yul Brynner

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 have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And,…

— Salman Rushdie

Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the…

— Sebastian Thrun

I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea…

— Anthony Lane

In addition to the original Executioner series I have also written a number of other works with diverse taste, even poetry. None,…

— Don Pendleton

The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all…

— Robert Fortune

There are different levels of scripting that we all use; I think I'm the most improvised of the three, and probably Andrew's…

— Joe Swanberg

The faith of the Latter-day Saints and the teaching that I have had since I was a child at my mother's knee,…

— Heber J. Grant

I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started…

— A. Scott Berg

Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If…

— Confucius

One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read…

— Robert Hass

Who can doubt that God created us to be happy, and thereto made us to love one another? It is plainly written…

— Francis Marion

I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there…

— Terry Pratchett

When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so…

— Wole Soyinka

If women were in charge of all the world's nations, there would be sincerely believe this - no military conflicts, and when…

— Dave Barry

I think when the movie 'Roxanne' came out, which I also had written, I felt something new that I never felt, which…

— Steve Martin

I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs.

— Miranda Kerr

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to…

— Cardinal Richelieu

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

— Anonymous

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

— Cassandra Wilson

I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.

— Brenda Lee

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

— James Fenton

I want to write just as much as Kanye may have for whomever Kanye has written for.

— PartyNextDoor

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

— Eric Schmidt

The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.

— Laozi

The moment you ascribe who you are right now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life.

— Jaggi Vasudev

I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true.

— Dorothy Parker

The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word.

— John Newton

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

— Ferran Adria

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

— Anna Quindlen

I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.

— Anne Lamott