Overwritten Quotes

#1. If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and researched. I really don't feel like I can wing it. So I write it out word for word, and when I'm onstage I'll improvise around it.

Andy Daly

#2. My first book is really comparable to what I do now, where it's pretty surreal and strange at moments, but that being my first book - I wrote that when I was 22; it came out when I was 24 - and it was just really overwritten. I just didn't trust myself as a writer to say something once.

Joe Meno

#3. The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and require sweeping; they hang in air like morning fog.

Dexter Palmer

#4. I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.

Brandon Stanton

#5. I feel like an overwritten paragraph.

Don DeLillo

#6. Sensitive OPA data was scrubbed and overwritten with innocuous-looking logs with false time stamps. Anything too sensitive to trust to a computer, the captain destroyed.

Anonymous

#7. Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.

Mel Gibson

#8. The world could be as small as it was cruel. She wondered at God sometimes, his schemes, his plans, his plots, his sense of order. Maybe he was just like the Bible - beautiful and overwritten and redundant and badly in need of editing.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#9. Every inch of ground on this planet is a palimpsest, scraped clean and overwritten a million times, leaving behind just as many ghosts.

Seanan McGuire

#10. Amy: Hey, Paisley, Ever fancied someone you know you shouldn't?
Bracewell: What?
Amy: Hurts, doesn't it? But kind of a good hurt.

Mark Gatiss

#11. I am and always will be the optimist, the hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improblable dreams.

Matt Smith

#12. I believe actual violence scars children much more than violence in storybooks.

Robert Paul Weston

#13. God's eyes are on me. His face is not against me. And even if others appear to be against me, I must make sure in my reaction to them that I extend grace and honor God.

Lysa TerKeurst

#14. I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

Colleen McCullough

#15. Sure, the killer was my son, but I didn't teach him to pull the trigger of the gun. It's the killer on this TV screen, you can't blame me, it's the images he sees.

Jack Johnson

#16. In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

John McTiernan

#17. You are a mousetrap of a friend, all soft cheese and hard springs

Chris Cleave

#18. And step by step You'll lead me / And I will follow You all of my days.

Rich Mullins

#19. Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.

Bob Filner

#20. Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya