Written Quotes · Page 66

“I am a character in someone's book whose end has not yet been written”

— MBarreto Condado

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

— Max Brooks

If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed…

— Paolo Maldini

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

— Terri Windling

I had written six scores by the time I was 20, and I'd never been paid a dollar.

— Tim Minchin

I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.

— Paul Auster

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

— Dan Brown

I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the…

— Arjun Rampal

One of the conventions that I always liked was Doctor Zhivago, where everything that's written on the screen is in Russian but…

— Rowan Atkinson

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one…

— Scott Adams

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who…

— Clara Shih

I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the…

— Sandra Cisneros

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries.…

— Sergey Brin

Our life is like a book god has written. He is making us go through so much pain the first pages because…

— J-Young

If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written…

— James Fenton

Scholars have found that references to Christ in Josephus were deliberately planted in the translation long after it was written, and the…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete…

— Amanda McBroom

When we follow our hearts, we follow the path of lessons we were meant to take and gain knowledge from. Sometimes the…

— Suzy Kassem

I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to…

— Johannes Rau

People have one year after the wedding to send a gift. Thank-you notes must be written immediately. If you don't receive an…

— Ann Landers

That, if the Gentiles, (whom no Law inspir'd,) By Nature did what was by Law requir'd; They, who the written Rule and…

— John Dryden

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything I have ever written about has been about what's going on inside of us.

— Judith Viorst

To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

— Galileo Galilei

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

— Italo Calvino

Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

— Nat Hentoff

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

— Karl Kraus

'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction.

— Gerard Way

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

— Toni Morrison

A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.

— Joanne Greenberg

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

— Michael Landon

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

— Holland Taylor

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

There's a place on my arm where I've written her name next to mine.

— Tom Waits

"Legally Blonde 2" wasn't written specifically for a black woman.

— Regina King

Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.

— Lou Gramm

I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.

— Isabel Allende

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.

— Teena Marie