Written Quotes

When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.

I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

The main problem was a pacing problem. I had wanted the project to be about 20-30 issues, and I should have written it out as a full script beforehand.

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

I would rather have bad things written about me than be forgotten.

That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

I changed my mind because of a scene between Howard Cunningham and Richie. The father-son situation was written so movingly, I fell in love with the project.

Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.

I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.