Top 100 Quotes About Written
#1. Having this thought in mind, the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out. L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum
#2. Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.
Eminem
#3. The Bill of Rights was written before data-mining," he said. He was awesomely serene, convinced of his rightness. "The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?
Cory Doctorow
#4. every weekday morning at that exact time, barring holidays, major illnesses, or snow over her boot tops. As far as anybody knew, she didn't actually have a schedule written out, but were her day divided out on paper, that's what it would say. Courthouse steps 8:59 a.m. Out of bed at 7:30, bran
A.H. Gabhart
#5. I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
Lynn Abbey
#6. There are only about 30,000 really important books in the world. I suppose about 5,000 of them were written in the English language, and 5,000 more have been translated. - Roger Mifflin
Christopher Morley
#7. There was a great magazine in the '80s called 'Cinemagic' for home moviemakers who liked to do monster and special effects movies. It was like a magazine written just for me.
Peter Jackson
#8. It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written.
Sienna Miller
#9. Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.
Charlton Laird
#10. We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.
Donald Miller
#11. One day, I discovered that a couple of people had written 'fanfic' - stories of their own based on my characters. Just the thought of people thinking that hard and deeply about something I've written is incredible.
Ann Leckie
#12. I remember when my daughter was just learning her letters. She was playing in her room and came downstairs to ask me, "Momma, what does C-H-I-N-A spell?" "China," I told her (she knew what the word meant - she had friends from there). "So," she asked next, "why is it written on everything?
Annie Leonard
#13. Seerow's kindness. Even then, all those years ago, i knew. My father's epitaph had just been written.
Katherine Applegate
#14. Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.
Peter Singer
#15. If I had known how difficult it was to edit my book, I would have done that first then written the story.
Edwin D. Ferretti III
#16. The exchange of a wife for a pair of gates( "The finest this side Paradise,") Brandwyn had written in his diary
Alan Bradley
#17. Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.
Richard Schiff
#18. The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
Harry Browne
#19. I'd always loved the chance to become someone else for a few hours. Someone for whom the words had been written, every gesture and emotion plotted, and the ending figured out. Almost like life. Just without the surprises.
Morgan Matson
#20. The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#21. After finding "God hates fags" written in Magic Marker on his locker Roan had cleaned it off and then wrote, also in Magic Marker, "I hate your God
Andrea Speed
#22. Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.
Douglas Adams
#23. tidying with what a couple of the other pianists had called her obsessive-compulsive neatness. Well, could she help it if she liked the sheet music alphabetized? And then put in numerical order according to the year it was written?
Elizabeth Bevarly
#24. As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The bible was not written by a woman. Within its leaves there is nothing but humiliation and shame for her.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#25. A written constitution guides and directs the application of law in a way utterly unlike oral guidance. It reminds us that the certainty and consistency of legal application is essential.
Edwin Meese
#26. No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems
Anna Garlin Spencer
#27. Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.
Tom Butler-Bowdon
#28. As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down.
Spike Jonze
#29. I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second books.
Tracy K. Smith
#30. IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they are created. If you don't write at all you won't know how "great" that simple book can be.
Shiree McCarver
#31. We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.
Charles Spurgeon
#32. Today, it's possible to read both erotica and books written for children without fear of social castigation.
Amelia Gray
#33. This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.
Annie Besant
#34. Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.
Zhou Weihui
#36. For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi d'une Faune,' or Canteloube's 'Songs of the Auvergne' playing in the background.
Edward Rutherfurd
#37. 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.
Umberto Eco
#38. You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.
Derwin L. Gray
#39. Every novel I've written has been about finding stuff out. I'm motivated much more by curiosity than by self-expression.
Jane Smiley
#40. Naturally, I've always felt more like a writer myself, and I've always written. I have people who are writers who've been promoting that side of me. I also draw, too. Those things I feel most comfortable in.
Craig Bierko
#41. You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.
Doris Lessing
#42. Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud
#43. I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal.
Laura Hillenbrand
#44. The whole account of baptism in the New Testament is plain and intelligible, and the state of this ordinance, during the lives of the apostles, is to be gathered mostly from the book of Acts, written by Luke, the first ecclesiastical historian.
David Benedict
#45. The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.
Margaret Whiting
#46. Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason ... to write for me.
Tim Roth
#47. I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.
Garrison Keillor
#48. Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God; still greater was the love in that it was made known to them that they were called children of God, as it is written, 'Ye are the children of the Lord your God.'
Akiva Ben Joseph
#49. If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
H. G. Bissinger
#50. A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.
Agyness Deyn
#51. As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.
Michael Cunningham
#52. I've probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.
Jim Sturgess
#53. Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
Viggo Mortensen
#54. I think one of the big questions for many [Bernie] Sanders supporters is, are [Hillary Clinton's] words and what's written in paper going to actually come to pass when she is elected president? That's, I think, the greatest worry for many Sanders supporters.
Jonathan Tasini
#55. The floor of the passageway was lined with an intricate mosaic of a big, black hound. Underneath were written the words of warning that had served property owners for at least two thousand years. Cave canem. Beware of the dog.
Daniel Godfrey
#56. There are books showing men how to succeed in everything; they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books.
G.K. Chesterton
#57. As gay young people, we are marginalized. As young people who are HIV-positive and have AIDS, we are totally written off.
Pedro Zamora
#58. The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
Cornelia Funke
#59. I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what i believe. I cannot unlive my life
Hilary Mantel
#60. 'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.
Bill Murray
#61. I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think there's always been a shred of hope in everything I've written 'cause I like that balance.
Jakob Dylan
#62. I usually decide if I'm going to do a movie based on if I like the script or not. I thought 'Pulling Strings' had every single element that a classic romantic comedy needs to be a success. It's very well written. The cast was amazing. It was a decision I made based on the power of the script.
Jaime Camil
#63. I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.
Iris Dement
#64. Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.
Zadie Smith
#65. I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about and would say that I am them pretty much. So in terms of that I don't think I'm similar to Bret Easton Ellis .
Tao Lin
#66. My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don't think any teacher should try to 'teach an author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do.
Guy Davenport
#67. The writing was so clearly written on the wall about me, but I didn't see it. I had no role models. I didn't know there was even a possibility of being gay. I battled with it, but this was the way God made me. If you have a problem with it, take it up with the man upstairs.
Bryan Batt
#68. I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.
Jenny Hval
#69. No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things
Ernest Hemingway,
#70. We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.
Francis Chan
#71. Demanding a separation between church and state isn't enough; the churches' basic doctrines must be changed, with homophobia written out forever.
Michelangelo Signorile
#72. Donald Trump is proud of the fact that he's never written an e-mail.
John McAfee
#73. You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#74. The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.
Judah Smith
#75. I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
Isaac Newton
#76. Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.
Sheri S. Tepper
#77. They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.
Jonathan Coe
#78. In the United States, nobody needs to remind people of their own role or their own power in creating the future they want to see. Perhaps it is something that is almost written into your cultural DNA: a desire to answer your Founding Fathers' call to create a 'more perfect union.'
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
#79. For someone like me,
it is a very strange habit to write in a diary.
Not only that I have never written before,
but it strikes me that later neither I,
nor anyone else,
will care for the outpouring
of a thirteen year old schoolgirl.
Anne Frank
#80. There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking, "Don't even try to be smart, it's absurd."
Lou Doillon
#81. I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.
Paul Simon
#82. My work on Orange has taught me this: Human beings are not categorically bad because of their mistakes. They can learn from their errors and get back on track. No one should be forever written off because of one part of his or her history.
Diane Guerrero
#83. The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.
Douglas Coupland
#84. The words come out of Helen Justineau in a flat monotone. Parks thinks of Gallagher's written report, with its proceeding tos and its thereupons. But Justineau's bowed head and the tightness of her grip on the parapet wall add their own commentary. "I
M.R. Carey
#85. Coloured people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.
Ray Bradbury
#86. Love and memory and thought and dream ~
My favorite poems have never been written in words.
Kij Johnson
#87. As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find myself in the position of being both myself and nothing. 65
Marcel Benabou
#88. In soul of every newborn baby,
words are waiting to be written.
Toba Beta
#89. Marriage isn't a business, co-owned and managed. It's a love story. The most important things we can give our marriage are time and romance, kissing and laughing. Laundry can wait, but a love story needs to be written a little bit every day. WHEN
Shauna Niequist
#90. Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.
Louis MacNeice
#91. I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.
Helen Mirren
#92. Every story written is
marks upon a page
The same marks,
repeated, only
differently arranged
Max Barry
#93. I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.
Vivienne Westwood
#94. I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
Etgar Keret
#95. I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.
Lisa Cholodenko
#96. I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.
Sarah Dessen
#97. The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
Herman Wouk
#98. The classic formulation of the materialist conception of history is that of the Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, written in 1859.
Anonymous
#99. It was beautifully worded and painfully read; the things that were written, were those never said
Lang Leav
#100. We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that you could say we are ruthless with each other - in fact, I suppose we are very kind. There are ways to make suggestions which are not destructive.
Jonathan Kellerman
