Written Quotes

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.

I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him.

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

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

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.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

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.