Best 371 quotes in «written quotes» category

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

I've never really [written] something that was inspired.

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.

I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.

I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.

I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.

I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

I would never have written it without you. (Erin) And I would never have lived without you. (V'Aiden)

I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.

I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.

Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]

Letters are largely written to get things out of your system.

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down.

It was written without fear and without research.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

I've never written a hard journalism piece in my life. I've never wanted to do that.

I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties.

I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.

I've written a little bit in Germany.

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.

Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.

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