Written Quotes

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

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

History should be written as philosophy.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.

Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.

There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do.

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.

One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!