Written Quotes

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.

I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.

Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.

I don't think any of our lyrics have ever been erotic in a sexual term, because I haven't really written, touched on, that subject too often. But, uh... I mean, I suppose they could point the finger at us for violence maybe in certain songs.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.

I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

I feel like the books were just written like a movie. You read it and you can just kind of see everything. Before I went in to read with the director, I read the first book and I loved it. I didn't realize how good the writing was. And then I went in and read with Gary Ross, and that was it.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.

I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.