Written Quotes

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.

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

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

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.

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.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.

They've never written a love story for me since I've been on the show and I think there's just more weight to it when two people love each other.

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

Everyone has an opinion of who you are and what your relationship is about, things that you've done or didn't do in your relationship - and it's just all crap, really. Things that are written about it are all crap.

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

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare.

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of.

Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.