Written Quotes · Page 95

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how…

— Walter Inglis Anderson

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry…

— Saul Williams

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

— Claire Tomalin

When you people have a set up joke and the joke is set up straight and the words are just well written,…

— Will Gluck

Well, usually, when you're doing a sitcom, you get a script and every word or for the most part, is written. So,…

— Cheryl Hines

The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.

— Lenny Bruce

The First Amendment was specifically designed for citizens to insult politicians. Libel laws were written to protect law students speaking out on…

— Bill Maher

First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can…

— Anthony Hemingway

My plan for the online version of 'Famous Monsters' is to become an online 'uncle' to an entire group of people who…

— Harry Knowles

“It was written all in O, or nearly so, and all the O's are gone," said Andrea. "When coat is cat, and…

— James Thurber

I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

No one can write their real religious life with pen or pencil. It is written only in actions, and its seal is…

— Wilfred Grenfell

The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an…

— Walter Bagehot

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

“Poem Written in a Copy of Beowulf At various times, I have asked myself what reasons moved me to study, while my…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I've also never written about home in this way before. I guess a lot of it is subconscious and I am intuitively…

— Jesmyn Ward

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the…

— George Shearing

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote…

— Ethel Merman

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and…

— Poppy Z. Brite

I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always…

— Ann Patchett

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

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top…

— George Bernard Shaw

A 'living constitution' is a dead constitution, because it does not do the one and only thing a written constitution is supposed…

— Kevin Gutzman

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've…

— Blake Bailey

I love the songs we've written together [with Ivo Moring] and believe that Rock music is coming back with a vengeance. There…

— Wendy Starland

I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I'm sexy. I think he is too. But I don't go out…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this:…

— Carol Ann Duffy

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

To be joining 'The Hunger Games' family is such a thrill. It deserves the hype because it's well written, handles really big…

— Natalie Dormer

I think the goal is to make a well written scene seem like it's improvised and/or to come up with things that…

— Robert Downey, Jr

There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us…

— Eric McCormack

'Appetite for Destruction' was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the guitar parts at the same time. After that,…

— Axl Rose

I'd love to create my own stuff. I've always written stuff, but it would be nice to have my hand a little…

— Reece Thompson

The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who…

— Andrzej Wajda

Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren’t distracted by the…

— R. K. Milholland

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written,…

— Harold Brodkey

I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a…

— Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone…

— Orville Prescott