Written Quotes

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on.

Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

I don't think anything you've written is immortal as yet.

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him.

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

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

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.