Best 371 quotes in «written quotes» category

Even if you've written something for print, I think it's good to try [it] out on someone because it changes. You can think it's hilarious and they can tell you it's not.

Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.

Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

Every word written is a victory against death.

Fate is written in the face.

Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.

For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

From an early age I've written songs and played the piano.

Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written.

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

History gets written by the winners.

History is, as we know, written by the winners.

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

History is not written in the interests of morality.

History should be written as philosophy.

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

Honest songs aren`t written for money.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have always written, and in another sense, am currently writing, and in another sense, am always writing, and in another sense, will never write.

I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

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

I don't believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand.

I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

I do not like to write - I like to have written.