Written Quotes · Page 87

The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a…

— Vincente Minnelli

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but…

— Anne Frank

Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were…

— Mark Victor Hansen

Lyrics should not need to stand on their own; many of [Bob] Dylan's do, but in common with other great lyricists, he…

— David Bennun

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

— Harold S. Kushner

Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can…

— Taylor Momsen

Laura Alicia Deverell was born on May 10th, 1862, at precisely a quarter past one o'clock on a Thursday morning. Those interested…

— Susan Ertz

'Ghost City' was actually one of the few instances of non-fiction that I had written, and I felt that I probably said…

— Ronald Frame

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

— Jeff Ament

My dad's songs were really written to make certain people feel as though they had some kind of value. Because they were…

— Arlo Guthrie

Anything said off the cuff has usually been written on it first.

— Robin Skelton

Our Cosmic Habitat is certain to be widely quoted and widely read. It is beautifully written, using inspiring and stimulating analogies. While…

— John N. Bahcall

The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would…

— J. K. Rowling

There are more than 100 first- and second- hand witnesses to the retrieval of an extraterrestrial spacecraft and at least four extraterrestrial…

— Steven M. Greer

On the whole, it bums me out that lyrics seem to be written as afterthoughts nowadays. Not sure why this is, but…

— Wooden Wand

I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much…

— Pippa Middleton

I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it…

— Amy Lee

I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four…

— Paul Auster

I grew up in a family where no one had written a newspaper or magazine article about anybody in my family for…

— Michael J. Saylor

I've written several pilots that haven't gone, so that's why you haven't seen any.

— Rob Riggle

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

— Arnold Bennett

Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about.

— Peter Benchley

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can…

— Anne Lamott

When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.

— James Earl Jones

We live in a society that is in transition from oral to written. There are oral stories that are still there, not…

— Chinua Achebe

I want to get people to read stone, tree, so forth & so on through the construction of the picture, to lead…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

— Jeanette Winterson

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last…

— Ron Reagan

The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it…

— Chris Killip

I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may…

— Alice James

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

— Bob Dylan

After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain…

— Erle Stanley Gardner

I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the…

— Ann Beattie

If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write…

— Melissa Rosenberg

My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.

— Eva Green

[Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful,…

— Elisabeth of Wied

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought ,in my previous…

— Jessica Clark

All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the…

— Sonia Sotomayor