Written Quotes

Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

I often reread books I have written.

I don't know about the time those songs were written. But he was jamming with someone in Colorado or San Francisco, and I'm sure he was working on the lyrics right up to the show because they were really relevant for the situation.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.

My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

If pushed, though, I'd say that the next stage will be reached when it it's no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980's on the way to that.

There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.