Written Quotes

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.

I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career.

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."