Written Quotes · Page 67

The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.

— Anna Quindlen

There are rhythms in the world waiting for words to be written to them.

— Patricia Garfield

I hate that not everything ever written is on iBooks. Man, I hate paper.

— Penn Jillette

There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'

— Natalie Dormer

When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.

— Abigail Scott Duniway

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

— Annie Dillard

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

— Patrick O'Brian

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable…

— Roald Dahl

I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at…

— Jami Attenberg

Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the…

— Ann Wilson

Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain…

— Michael Chabon

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

I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense…

— Elizabeth Hand

Arise, my soul, arise; shake off thy guilty fears; The bleeding sacrifice in my behalf appears: Before the throne my surety stands,…

— Charles Wesley

Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a…

— Caroline Kennedy

I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that…

— Carol Burnett

When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the…

— Hermann Hesse

After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he…

— Joseph Heller

It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when…

— Teddy Thompson

With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking…

— Skip Horack

There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over…

— Marilynne Robinson

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to…

— Bill Nye

I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like…

— Anne Sexton

It's usually very, very hard for me to pick up a script that was written and try and see myself as a…

— Eric Bana

The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again.

— Florence Littauer

I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.

— Jason Lee

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

— James Thurber

Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done.

— John Dufresne

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

— Marcel Proust

“The thing is not to write what no one else could have written, but to write what only you could have written.”

— Nam Le

All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.

— Claire Tomalin

It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

— Avi

The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

— Fulton J. Sheen

I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.

— Toby Keith

A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing.

— Emma McLaughlin

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation

— Taylor Caldwell

Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.

— Dale Spender

My love of written language is every bit as great as my love for music.

— Robert Christgau

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

— Michael Mayer

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

— Charles Colson