Written Quotes

I changed my mind because of a scene between Howard Cunningham and Richie. The father-son situation was written so movingly, I fell in love with the project.

Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.

I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.

I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll approach it and write specifically to see how the pieces fit in the puzzle.

We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour.

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context.

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.