Written Quotes

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.

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.

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for.