Top 100 Be Written Quotes
#2. Had I waited for the script of Nautanki Saala to be written before signing it, perhaps I could have avoided the misstep it turned out to be. Patience and wisdom is something that even the patient and wise strive for.
Ayushmann Khurrana
#3. His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.
Patrick White
#4. Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry has lost the confidence that it speaks to and for the general culture.
Dana Gioia
#5. The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great things that can be written up, but the common little rubs of life, silly little nothings, things you are ashamed of minding one scrap
Amy Carmichael
#6. 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.
Michelle Malkin
#7. First drafts don't have to be perfect. They just have to be written.
Anonymous
#8. I am very conscious that, from the time of 'The God of Small Things' was published 10 years ago, we are in a different world ... which needs to be written about differently, and I really very much want to do that.
Arundhati Roy
#9. The one thing I've always liked about that boy. As much as I hate his body language screaming he owns you, with him next to you ain't no one gonna mess with my little girl.It may as well be written on his chest in neon lights.
Elizabeth Reyes
#10. In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.
Salman Rushdie
#11. I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals.
John Lennon
#12. I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.
James Frey
#13. Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#14. Any new gun control is simply gonna infringe on the law-abiding ability to exercise constitutional rights. There's not a single law that could be written, that has been written, that could be passed that would stop Omar Mateen from getting a gun and shooting people up.
Rush Limbaugh
#15. In life you must write your own story, or one will be written for you.
A.J. Garces
#16. You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.
Anne Lamott
#17. I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
Laura Donnelly
#18. Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.
Isaac Watts
#19. In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#20. The road from 'here' to 'there' is a map yet to be written with the pen I hold in my hand.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#21. Your dreams should always be written on your heart. If you have written on a paper many may spy .
Osunsakin Adewale
#22. The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.
William Faulkner
#23. I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.
Matthea Harvey
#24. History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#25. There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter can frame his picture, a composer can notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move.
Mirabel Osler
#26. I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.
Italo Calvino
#27. Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world.
Michael Chabon
#28. Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.
Bertrand Russell
#29. There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.
Sharon Olds
#30. It's like the man is an open book but whatever his story is just happens to be written in a different language.
J.M. Darhower
#31. Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.
Sam Hunt
#32. Well, for instance, why does everything always have to be written from the point of view of a human being? Why not write from the point of view of a cat? Or a tree?
Austin Scott Collins
#33. When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me - yet - the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.
Margaret Atwood
#34. So nothing will ever be written down again. Perhaps the act of writing is necessary only when nothing happens.
Kobo Abe
#36. I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written for another thirty or forty years. But perhaps this is true of most writers - the emotional storage is done very early on.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#37. The story of humanity can be written as the struggle to acknowledge all human beings as human beings.
J.S.B. Morse
#38. Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.
Henning Mankell
#39. No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.
Peter Benchley
#40. But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
Philip Levine
#41. Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
Hal Abelson
#42. Henceforth and from now on, I decree that whenever something bad happens to me, there shall be bunnies around. So it shall be written.
Christopher Moore
#43. Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.
Elmore Leonard
#44. Do not fear the story you do not yet know or understand. Come to the Author of your life and the Word spoken for you, so that a new story can be written." Divine Possibilities
Patti Barone
#45. We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about [music] education.
Kanye West
#46. ...Time had seemed infinite when she still had many years and decades ahead of her. A book waiting to be written: as a girl, that was how she had seen her future life. Now she was sixty, and the pages were blank. Infinity had passed like one long continuous day.
Nina George
#47. So it shall be written, so it shall be done.
Iron Maiden
#48. She'd get out of the shower the next morning, and it would be written in the steam on the mirror.
Dance. Dress. Try a little tenderness.
Rainbow Rowell
#49. The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.
George P. Rowell
#50. Without writers, stories would not be written,
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.
Angie-Marie Delsante
#51. The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#52. For no word can be written without first having been seen
Paul Auster
#53. I didn't dare look at Conrad. I was afraid my love for him and my need for him to say yes would be written on my face like a poem.
Jenny Han
#54. But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.
Sarah Dessen
#55. Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town.
Joseph Conrad
#56. A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated.
George Fernandes
#57. For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do, since no expressions do; hence the most ordinary conversation is often the most poetic, and the most poetic is precisely that which cannot be written down.
Virginia Woolf
#58. In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people would lose the capacity to think for themselves, simply adopting the perspective of a handy written opinion, and that they would cease to remember what could be written down.
Nick Harkaway
#59. You and I have to rejoice that we have not to answer for our fathers' crimes, neither shall we do right to charge them one to another. We can only regret it, and flee from it, and from henceforth, let peace and righteousness be written upon our hearts and hands forever.
William Apess
#61. If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
Bill Gates
#64. Code should be written to minimize the time it would take for someone else to understand it.
Dustin Boswell
#65. Nothing is wasted when you are a writer. The stuff that doesn't work has to be written to make way for the stuff that might;
Abigail Thomas
#66. I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, 'Why did you do that?' This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.
Muhammad Ali
#67. it's never too late to change. Every day is a blank page, and your story has yet to be written.
Amy Zhang
#68. I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with the complexity of the human being behind. Could be bad, could be good, could be someone we would hate, but still, I need a reason for that influence, and I need to understand why.
Hiam Abbass
#69. THERE ARE TOO MANY OF THEM. Reyna wondered bitterly how many times she'd said that in her demigod career. She should have a button made and wear it around to save time. When she died, the words would probably be written on her tombstone: There were too many of them.
Rick Riordan
#70. What I mean to say is that in a highly exceptional reality [ ... ] the non-exceptional can, for convenience sake, be written off as paradoxically exceptional.
Haruki Murakami
#71. The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.
Ernest Hemingway,
#72. A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.
Virginia Woolf
#73. History, that is to be written tomorrow ... to be read by our children ... to serve as their guide is written in our actions today. A greater call to responsibility I have not known.
Gary Holder-Winfield
#74. In order to be written into History; one must first change it.
Darrius Garrett
#75. The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
Lytton Strachey
#76. If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language ... This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors ... who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.
Robertson Davies
#77. Within my words there is a longing
To be written, through the senses to travel across the mind
To be perceived by your heart, to rest in your deep.
Preeth Nambiar
#78. Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.
Lord Chesterfield
#79. The slice of time has become enormous in importance, and its hidden meaning is now perfectly plain, though so complex that it can hardly be written down.
Ben Maddow
#80. The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.
Joyce Carol Oates
#81. There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.
Toba Beta
#83. There may well be a scientific paper to be written on why walking in an art gallery is so much more exhausting than, say, climbing Helvellyn. My guess is that it is something to do with the energy required to hold muscles in tension, combined with the mental exertion of wondering what to say.
David Nicholls
#84. If I took a month off, I was likely to be replaced by one of the other, say, two hundred freelancers vying to get my assignments. If I took six months off to have a baby, I believed I would be written off by my editors. I was in a man's profession.
Lynsey Addario
#85. O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written
Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from wrath and shame, As doth the burial-bed.
Herman Melville
#86. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#87. Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#88. It will be written on my tombstone in very large letters, 'Here lies Hikaru Sulu,' and in very tiny letters, 'aka George Takei.' I don't protest the inevitable.
George Takei
#89. Partying and having all of those pictures taken distracts from the work that I do. It's not why I started acting. I didn't get into acting to be written about. It kind of just happened - so I accept that it's my life.
Lindsay Lohan
#90. There may be no book on the mothers of poets, or artists in general, but it might one day be written and would be, I think, an enlightening read.
Alexander McCall Smith
#91. There are rhythms in the world waiting for words to be written to them.
Patricia Garfield
#92. I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.
Jeanette Winterson
#93. Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#94. So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68).
Richard Baxter
#95. In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.
Judy Blume
#96. A dictionary contains all the books ever written, and all the books that will ever be written.
Kevin Brooks
#97. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.
Oscar Wilde
#99. You've got to remember, the older you get the slower you get. I've seen a lot of players get old ... if I can have a good season in 1972 and come back with another good one, well, that's different. I might not quit. But two bad ones back to back and staying home would be written on the wall.
Hank Aaron
#100. You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
Madeleine L'Engle
