The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and… — Bible Copy Share Image
I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do. — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
Most books about Stanley Kubrick were written by people who never met him and gathered information from articles written by others who… — Jan Harlan Copy Share Image
We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Editorials are written by people who have agreed to have several strong opinions a day and to write them down, provided they… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“In his experience, anything really important never got written down, because by then people were too busy shouting.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
There have been plenty of things that I've written that other people haven't cared about, but it hasn't stopped me from being… — Mike O'Malley Copy Share Image
The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as… — Bernice L. McFadden Copy Share Image
People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When… — Joel Chandler Harris Copy Share Image
In the past, I've always written about my experiences, and people related to that, but there's a lot of other things that… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I think that if you look at all of the books that have ever been written about people working in the White… — Alyssa Mastromonaco Copy Share Image
“Programs should be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This story was not written for people who do not know what I'm talking about.” — Christopher Higgs Copy Share Image
“In this place called Hell novels are written by people who don't read books.” — Andy Seven Copy Share Image
Business books are generally read and written by people who aren't good at business. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink. — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
So much has been written about me, and people don't know what's right and what's wrong. I'd rather let them stay confused. — Prince Copy Share Image
She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
It is very annoying - things have been written by people who didn't know me at all or Princess Diana. They were… — Hasnat Khan Copy Share Image
“If this were a novel, he might simply be a poorly written character. But there are no poorly written people. Only ones… — Jane Pek Copy Share Image
In a way, there's nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
“almost all the wall posts, which arrived nearly as fast as I could read them, were written by people I’d never met… — John Green Copy Share Image
'Glee' is produced with three people and written by three people. In my mind, I don't believe there's any other show on… — Kevin Reilly Copy Share Image
