Written Quotes

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.

I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career.

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.

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

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash is because when bands are unknown, they only get written about by fans.

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

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.

The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.