Written Quotes

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.

The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

A good book written for children can be read by adults.

You're a song written by the hands of God.

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.