Written Quotes

I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I'm sexy. I think he is too. But I don't go out half-naked with 'sex' written across my back.

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.

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 have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

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.