Written Quotes

What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

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.