Written Quotes

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

I like films to be complete in their written form.

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?

I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal.

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which we did. After he heard the songs, he said that he knew someone in the record business by the name of Bob Shad.

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.