Written Quotes · Page 79

Those Christians who are very strict in their observances, think a good deal more of the Sabbath than of man, a great…

— George MacDonald

Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

— Beverly Cleary

I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose…

— Irvine Welsh

[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and…

— Erich Fromm

If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns…

— John Ciardi

Partying and having all of those pictures taken distracts from the work that I do. It's not why I started acting. I…

— Lindsay Lohan

I didn't go to drama school or anything, and I learned on the job. And it's nice to have the chance to…

— Maria Doyle Kennedy

Let's start at the very end: The postscript of Stephen King's 'On Writing' contains some of the most harrowing pages he has…

— Gary Krist

If I've written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap.…

— Steve Toltz

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

I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics…

— Terry Pratchett

“The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.”

— John Dufresne

Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing…

— Michael Morpurgo

In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.

— Nick Bilton

My days are filled with writing, reading, and being a mom. Some days, I get to visit schools around the country and…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

— Calvin Trillin

With my website, I'm really interactive. I've written a lot of things about me.

— Serena Williams

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

— Madeleine Albright

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

— Michael Landon

When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficult to…

— Jenny Downham

I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I…

— Richard Prince

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

— Paul Kagame

You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.

— Wallace Shawn

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important…

— Norah Jones

Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the…

— David Berlinski

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were…

— Helen Vendler

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

— Carl Sandburg

I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.

— David Bezmozgis

Mutability is written upon all things.

— Antoine Rivarol

I've always found that the best things I've ever written, or the things I like the most that I've written, are things…

— Drew Magary

When you only hang out with performers, you start to feel like movies and TV and comedy is everything. Especially being in…

— Gillian Jacobs

Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.

— Niklaus Wirth

I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know…

— Dana Fox

You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants…

— Gary Cole

I've always gotten good grades, you know, with my teachers and my English teachers, 'cause I was able to - they'd say,…

— Ice Cube

Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story,…

— William Kent Krueger

So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about]…

— Paul McCartney

The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The…

— Hugo Black

Any new gun control is simply gonna infringe on the law-abiding ability to exercise constitutional rights. There's not a single law that…

— Rush Limbaugh