Written Quotes

Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.

I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.

I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.

Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.

It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.