Written Quotes

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.

They have this big book called the "DSM-IV," you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!

I've never written a book before.

The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it.

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.

To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.

People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.