Written Quotes

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and '62.

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

We've written something like 900 songs in all.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.

I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I'm sexy. I think he is too. But I don't go out half-naked with 'sex' written across my back.

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.

Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.