Written Quotes

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, "I have arrived." Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.

Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.

I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things.

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

Much has been written about the life of the mind.

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.

I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.

This autocue was obviously written for someone else and I've been brought in at the last minute.

With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift.

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.

It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear.

I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.