Written Quotes · Page 76

My father would never have said about any of his children you shouldn't express your opinions. But it's the way in which…

— Patti Davis

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as…

— George Saunders

I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.

— Mike Gordon

It is suggested that all written works, including this one, have dangerous implications to the vitality of an oral tradition and to…

— Harold Innis

... an appallingly high percentage of doctors and other practitioners are still pretty much out of the loop regarding trigger points, despite…

— Clair Davies

I've been through my fair share of highs and lows. Yes, I've been written off, and it amazes me, and it amuses…

— Shilpa Shetty

I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different…

— Ron Currie Jr

We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He…

— Michael Cudlitz

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

— Grazia Deledda

Each song had a different way of coming about. In some, the music was written first while others it was the lyrics.…

— Elena Tonra

The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about…

— Adam Hamilton

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

— Hunter Parrish

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

— Paulo Coelho

Write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount. You have to write so much that you don't mind throwing away and…

— Josh Lieb

Actors don't request what scenes to be written in. That's just not how it works.

— Nicholas Gonzalez

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

If you equate the probability of the birth of a bacteria cell to chance assembly of its atoms, eternity will not suffice…

— Christian de Duve

We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies.…

— Maj Sjowall

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

— John Gregory Dunne

You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.

— Mary Matalin

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that…

— Rudolf Otto

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and…

— Jamais Cascio

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

— John Grisham

As we speak, that is what we are doing. Projects that come to you are not written for you. We have to…

— Columbus Short

Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to…

— John Bunyan

One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing…

— Peter Greenaway

I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already…

— Neil Peart

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue…

— Michael Jackson

Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read…

— Anne Lamott

Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in '71, I got very excited about…

— Anonymous

If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that…

— Alice Cooper

Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue…

— Claire Tomalin

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

— Ronald Biggs

I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes' because I wanted to…

— Jane Birkin

An oral society develops both sides of your brain, and the utilization of your brain is more complete than in a linear…

— Russell Means

I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I…

— Nat Hentoff

I understand that during [Sonia Sotomayor's] career, she's written hundreds and hundreds of opinions. I haven't read a single one of them,…

— Harry Reid

I've written a lot about drugs and alcohol. I wouldn't say it's because we've gotten bigger or anything, but I kind of…

— Craig Finn

I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so…

— Tao Lin

I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I…

— George R. R. Martin