Written Quotes

One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.

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

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Dobie was so well written and so ahead of its time.

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written; some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98; but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others.

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business.

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state.

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me.