Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. I buried everything under layers… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I'd written a lot of songs with hummingbirds in them. None of them ever came to anything, but I did write a… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men. — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just… — Tommy Shaw Copy Share Image
THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book.… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female… — Wendi McLendon-Covey Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] has had the good judgment and common sense to get back with all these people, who have written the legislation… — Mary Matalin Copy Share Image
Our Lord Christ Himself strikes down our enemies through us, or in company with us. For he who eats Christ's flesh and… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The combination of what's written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
My love of written language is every bit as great as my love for music. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment.… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have been No. 1… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The question now becomes about defining your terms. What is literature? Unless we allow it to encompass the oral tradition from which… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It will greatly help you to understand scripture if you note - no only what is spoken and written, but of whom… — Myles Coverdale Copy Share Image
"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
I'm not ambitious when it comes to my acting career. I'm not breaking down my agency's doors or sending out headshots. Even… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage. — David Cross Copy Share Image