Written Quotes

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.

None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings.

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

It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time.

Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.