Best 371 quotes in «written quotes» category

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written.

As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it.

Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.

Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

Astronomy is written for astronomers

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

Calvaryites are sometimes a little too heavily oriented to the written Word.

Anything said off the cuff has usually been written on it first.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.

Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature.

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft.

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

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

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

Fate is written in the face.

Every word written is a victory against death.

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

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

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

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

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

Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

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

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

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

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

History gets written by the winners.

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

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

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

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