Written Quotes

The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.

I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.

Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.

I don't think any of our lyrics have ever been erotic in a sexual term, because I haven't really written, touched on, that subject too often. But, uh... I mean, I suppose they could point the finger at us for violence maybe in certain songs.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.