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Written Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar
- I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written for another thirty…
- The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions.
- A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being…
More Written Quotes
- 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Henry Adams