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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down. — Lance Armstrong
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick… — Paul Auster
Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. — Paul Auster
The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books… — Ibrahim Babangida
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
Biography should be written by an acute enemy. — Arthur Balfour
I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America… — Antonio Banderas
I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written. — John Banville
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. — Henry Adams
Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and… — Roseanne Barr
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. — Lynn Abbey
A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I… — Drew Barrymore
Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually… — Beck
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States… — Kate Beckinsale
Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy… — Harry Belafonte
Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than… — Robert Benchley
I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say. — Dirk Benedict

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