Written Quotes

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.

There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world, trying to do good, and written very well at the same time.

Written reports stifle creativity.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

The written word is everything.

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.

If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.

We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.

Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.