Written Quotes

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.

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.

It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.

We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.

It's not like I don't want to play the guy next door. But sometimes they're not the best written or the most complicated. But I am very, very particular about my bad boys. There are certain types of characters I will not play. I've said no so many times to so many parts that are just way too dark. You have to be careful.

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

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.

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.