Written Quotes

I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.

So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.

I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's a great thing to do as a mother - you forget a lot as you go along, but reading over what you've written brings all the memories back.

Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment.

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.

I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career.

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.