Written Quotes · Page 65

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.

— George Burns

I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.

— Alfonso Cuaron

The tweets that I send out are not written by somebody else. They're not vetted through my communications staff.

— Chris Murphy

Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.

— Jeremy Irons

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

— Henri Matisse

“There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident

It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or…

— Tavi Gevinson

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

— Jeff Feuerzeig

They've never written a love story for me since I've been on the show and I think there's just more weight to…

— Crystal Chappell

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and…

— Geezer Butler

For so long, I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written…

— Anonymous

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in…

— Andrew Motion

We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

Of course I have the license to make up things, but I think a lot of what's written about China is misleading,…

— Anchee Min

I've written a lot of movies with smoking, and the some of those movies absolutely gloried in the smoking and I wasn't…

— Chris Hayes

I blew about pounds 70,000 on stupid things - a very expensive car which got written off, and nightclubs. I'd always pick…

— Mark Lester

Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making…

— Paulo Coelho

It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection…

— Anthony Trollope

We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition…

— Terence McKenna

There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints…

— Jeremy Stoppelman

That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as…

— John Dewey

The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I…

— Per Petterson

I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable.…

— Susan Choi

Within a year after I write a play I forget the experience of having written it. And I couldn't revise or rewrite…

— Edward Albee

“I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what I believe. I cannot unlive my life.”

— Hilary Mantel

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

— Dan Chaon

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

— Julianna Margulies

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

— David Allan Coe

I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.

— Caroline Kennedy

Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.

— Joel Coen

I believe that each fight teaches you something, and a new history is written in each fight.

— Juan Manuel Marquez

The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent.

— Brian Tracy

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

— Stephen Sondheim

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

— Anonymous

If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.

— Marisol Nichols

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

— Rita Coolidge

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

— Duncan Sheik

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

— Paulo Coelho

All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this goddamn world upside down to do…

— Richard Brautigan

I have written in a lot of genres, that's true, and I'm not sure it's always served my career well.

— Sarah Pinborough