Written Quotes

I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.

It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.

None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time.

Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.