Written Quotes · Page 69

The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks,…

— Thomas Powers

At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in…

— Truman Capote

The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots…

— Saul Alinsky

Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights…

— John Conyers

I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that…

— Neil Gaiman

I try to make the writing as regular and regimented as possible. I usually get up at around 5 a.m. and read…

— Christopher Paul Curtis

I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.

— William Gibson

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

— Stephen Sondheim

The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and…

— Alex Chilton

Ive probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

— Jim Sturgess

I've been working on the margins and I was aware of this choice from the start. I buy most of what's written…

— Hassan Blasim

Writing a diary every evening before going to bed is a good habit. We can record in the diary how much time…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required…

— Henry David Thoreau

Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak,…

— James Hillman

He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

— Alan Jackson

All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our…

— W. H. Auden

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach…

— Bill Gates

The Tunisian blogger and activist Sami Ben Gharbia has written passionately about how U.S. government involvement in grassroots digital spaces can endanger…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact,…

— Kevin Smith

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have…

— Bill Gates

I think the MFA programs have had a real effect on the state of American fiction, but I don't think it's a…

— Chad Harbach

All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write…

— Laura Riding

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small,…

— Carl Sagan

If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!

— Emily Yoffe

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that…

— Cynthia Ozick

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

— Frank Sinatra

Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.

— Antonio Tabucchi

I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much…

— Terry Teachout

It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

— George W. Bush

I didn't think [Ella Enchanted] would get published. Everything I'd written till then had been rejected. If it was published, I thought…

— Gail Carson Levine

Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is…

— Russell Smith

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

— Natalie Dormer

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing…

— Patti Smith

I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for…

— Robert Frost

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing…

— Pippa Evans

There are poems that are never written, that simply move across the mind like skywriting on a still day: slowly the first…

— Linda Pastan

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

— Thomas Jefferson

“What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is…

— Delores Phillips

I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young…

— Jim Shepard