Written Quotes · Page 62

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

— Sevyn Streeter

My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves.

— Elisabeth of Wied

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

— Ne-Yo

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

— Ross Perot

I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

— Virginia Woolf

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

— Bayard Taylor

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

— Franz Kafka

One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest…

— Mary Abigail Dodge

I enjoy writing plays most. I haven't written a radio play in a while and I don't write short stories anymore because…

— Sefi Atta

What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page,…

— Milton Friedman

If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that…

— Alice Cooper

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there…

— Dolly Parton

It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in…

— Quentin S. Crisp

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into…

— Michael Korda

History, that is to be written tomorrow ...to be read by our children ... to serve as their guide is written in…

— Gary Holder-Winfield

I seemed to have instinctually a strong idea of how the strip had to be written from the beginning. That changed too,…

— Jules Feiffer

I loved writing something people usually have - miscommunication, for example. Now that I've written a romance, I'm sure I'll write more:…

— Theodora Goss

I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us.…

— George Henry Lewes

You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot…

— Blaise Pascal

I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good,…

— Francis Galton

I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people.…

— Michael Stipe

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“I wrote the last sentence of The Patron Saint of Liars in early April and stumbled out of my apartment and into…

— Ann Patchett

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

— Vasily Grossman

Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

— Leo Ornstein

I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four…

— Paul Auster

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

— Jonathan Coe

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.

— Leonard Bernstein

“She is a poem. She is an old one, a new one, one waiting to be written. She is.”

— N'Zuri Za Austin

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books.

— Philip Kotler

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

— George Stephen

The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

— Kate Clinton

I think with 'Modern Family,' you'll struggle to find anything better. It's brilliantly, brilliantly written.

— Brendan O'Carroll

I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.

— Mike Gordon

You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.

— Mary Matalin

A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.

— Brock Yates

The Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to # change our lives.

— Howard G. Hendricks