Written Quotes

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

'Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.

I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

The main problem was a pacing problem. I had wanted the project to be about 20-30 issues, and I should have written it out as a full script beforehand.

I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.