Written Quotes

Much has been written about the life of the mind.

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.

I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.

This autocue was obviously written for someone else and I've been brought in at the last minute.

With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift.

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.

It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear.

I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

The show was written just for us. We all thought we were the prettiest and the funniest.

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.