Written Quotes

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

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.

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.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

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.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.