Written Quotes · Page 97

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

— Dan Chaon

Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence.…

— Charles Darwin

The resurrection asserts a truth which is by no means always written legibly for all men on the face of nature. It…

— Henry Parry Liddon

We've always written from personal experiences.

— Keren Woodward

I have been written off my whole career.

— Diego Sanchez

The fact that you are here tonight gathered together with us testifies to the fact you understand the need for this organization…

— Walter Cronkite

When you're working with film, you can only shoot one angle at a time, and then everything has to stop, and you…

— Chris Pratt

I've been accused over the years of being close to players, but if something needs to be written, I've tried my best…

— Peter King

The downloads, the licensing, commercials, radio - it's made me more money than any song I've ever written, and it only went…

— Sammy Hagar

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

— Sela Ward

Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know…

— Richard Elman

Only relinquish all things into My hands: for I can work freely only as ye release Me by complete committal both of…

— Frances J Roberts

I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy,…

— F. Paul Wilson

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

— Donna Tartt

All films created by Walt Disney at the time of his major outpouring of work were carefully crafted to fit scenes, characters,…

— Richard Sherman

I don't think Roger Ebert has ever mentioned a screenplay. He assigns every auctorial move to the director, which makes some sense…

— William Monahan

I've written a little bit in Germany.

— Paul Beatty

When I'm on a plane, I am the annoying person humming into my phone. Sitting there static with nothing to do, a…

— Kiesza

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

— James A. Garfield

I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

— Kate Clinton

Revolution was written into the U.S. Constitution so it's like they're in a constant state of revolution. But then again, happiness is…

— Billy Connolly

Chiromancy is a stupidity! No man's fate is ever written on nowhere! In this universe, all the roads are our fate; all…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Reinhold Niebuhr

My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real,…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I don't think that I would go into the writers' room because they work really hard and I feel like I'm already…

— Mary Elizabeth Ellis

I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was…

— John Lennon

“Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind. And mind can only see things that already written in heart.”

— Toba Beta

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

— Pat Conroy

I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that…

— Stephen Greenblatt

No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't know if I've ever written a song that wasn't on assignment.

— Henry Mancini

The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their…

— Adam Smith

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

— Jack London

There's still a part of me that thinks I have to write a really good novel. I'm not trying to say I'm…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that…

— Peter Drucker

These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written,…

— Louis Pasteur

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The structure of 'March' was laid down for me before the first line was written, because my character has to exist within…

— Geraldine Brooks

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on…

— Calista Flockhart