Top 100 Well Written Quotes
#1. Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
#2. Jane Austen never did marry. Why doesthat statement call for such reflexive pity? It carries a diferent meaning if we follow it up: Jane Austen never did marry, and therefore she was given the time and perspective to produce books as well-written as those by anyone who ever lived.
-David Whyte
David Whyte
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. No sex position, no matter how well-written, can make up for the lack of a good partner.
Tiffany Reisz
#6. A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.
Dave Morris
#7. I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.
James Iha
#8. Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.
James Nicoll
#9. I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.
George Clooney
#10. Dobie was so well written and so ahead of its time.
Dwayne Hickman
#11. You can always find ways to make it different, as long as it's a really well-written script and well-written character.
Georgina Haig
#12. I daydream about things I want to happen, but none of it is more complicated, most of the time, than just really hoping that the good parts and the well-written parts are the ones that turn up on my doorstep.
Rebecca Hall
#13. The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.
Joseph Addison
#14. There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.
Demian Bichir
#15. I felt like Life was a great show. It was really well-written.
Donal Logue
#16. The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.
Stephen Malkmus
#17. In a well-written book we are presented with the maturest reflections, or the happiest flights of a mind of uncommon excellence. It is impossible that we can be much accustomed to such companions without attaining some resemblance to them.
William Godwin
#18. If a book is well written, I also find it too short.
Jane Austen
#19. Never read books you aren't sure about . . . even supposing that these bad books are very well written from a literary point of view. Let me ask you this: Would you drink something you knew was poisoned just because it was offered to you in a golden cup?
John Bosco
#20. If a book is well written, I will always find it too short.
Jane Austen
#21. All your books wouldn't seem so well written if you were just a little more well read.
Craig Finn
#22. When there's no technical problems, if you did the right casting, and the scene is well written, the actor will give you a strong performance with his intuition right from the start.
Denis Villeneuve
#23. You have to have a strong idea for a hit movie, a strong core idea that resonates emotionally. It also has to technically achieve its goal - it's got to be well-written, well-paced, and interestingly told.
Stacey Snider
#24. Zamunda represent everything that is kewl and real about vagabonding ... being the person that discovered Zamunda (for independent travelers) during the research of my book, Vagabonding, I am happy to see a well written guide done by the boyz and girl at BootsnAll
Rolf Potts
#25. I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
Jack Davenport
#26. Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we've had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period.
Ruben Blades
#27. Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
Thomas Carlyle
#28. There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.
Denise Mina
#29. 'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written.
Patrick Fischler
#30. If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.
Michael Ealy
#31. I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
Samantha Morton
#32. There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.
Marshall McLuhan
#33. The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
Aasif Mandvi
#34. Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses
Steve Aylett
#35. Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written.
Luke Bryan
#36. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written, that's all.
Walter Moers
#37. Tell me what you like, tell me how you feel, tell me which stuff are your favourite, what you enjoy doing and so far I can give you one well written book based on this stuff!?
Deyth Banger
#38. I love a novel that's funny, and The Taxman Cometh is very funny, delightfully well-written, yet with a serious message about how government bureaucracy affects us all. Read. Enjoy. And if a comparison to Catch 22 pops into your mind, that's not surprising.
Marvin Kalb
#39. Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.
James Marsden
#40. I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
Larry Hagman
#41. I really enjoy mysteries, well-written fiction novels, historical novels, and the occasional vampire, wolf, human triangle as long as it's real
Michael Connelly
#42. If there is chemistry, and the mind and body are working as one, it's nirvana. It's like a well-written symphony or, better yet, perfect... sheet music."
"Sheet music?"
"Yeah, music between the sheets.
Ann Lister
#43. What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that 'work!' Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.
Linda Sue Park
#44. And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.
Sophie Marceau
#45. I knew that Sylvester Stallone's involvement would outweigh everything else from the film. I think people went into Creed expecting a boxing movie and something that superficially ties Stallone in, but Creed was really well written.
Bun B.
#46. I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
C. C. H. Pounder
#47. I keep a pen in my hand so that I can underline anything that strikes me as particularly interesting or well written - it's a quirk left over from my days in graduate school.
Kim Wright
#48. I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.
Roddy Doyle
#49. SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion.
Sharyn McCrumb
#50. A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.
John Krasinski
#51. I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.
Sam Underwood
#52. Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.
Grace Slick
#53. I don't think anyone honestly would hire me, so I don't think I have to worry but, if it was well written I would do it. I would do anything
Mary-Louise Parker
#54. But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
Jane Austen
#55. Most agents hate prologues. Just make the first chapter relevant and well written.
Andrea Brown
#56. When you read a line that is just so well-written you just close the book and stare at the wall for a minute.
Anonymous
#57. One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.
Danielle De Niese
#58. You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out of your mouth, and you're able to dwell in your own headspace to get there.
Tom Weston-Jones
#59. David Frankfurter's valuable, well-written study takes us to the far reaches of demonology. In documenting the harm done by labeling others evil, he poses a challenge to those of us who believe, however regretfully, in the necessity of the concept.
Robert Jay Lifton
#60. If it's well written, even an obscene book cannot be immoral.
John McGahern, Galway, October 6th 2003. Acclaimed as the most important Irish novellist since James Joyce.
John McGahern
#61. If a book is well written,I always find it to short.
Jane Austen
#62. Pavel Palazchenko has given us a well-written, inside account of Gorbachev's and Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Remarkably objective, it is full of insights, makes fascinating reading, and will also be a prime source for scholars long into the future.
Jack F. Matlock Jr.
#63. If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.
Ben Kingsley
#64. If a book is well written i would find it too short.
Jane Austen
#65. Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
Kate DiCamillo
#66. It's so rare that you actually get to find a really well-written female lead.
Emily Rose
#67. Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.
Dolly Parton
#68. What I learned from doing 'The Graduate' was it doesn't matter what the medium is ... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.
Alicia Silverstone
#69. There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.
Joseph Addison
#70. Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
Michael Moriarty
#71. Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.
Ernest Bramah
#72. A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written
Isaac
#73. When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.
Julia Barr
#74. The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#75. I went into the kitchen ten minutes back. The cat was sitting on the mat.
Beale's narrative style closely resembled that of a certain book I had read in my infancy. I wish I could remember its title. It was a well-written book.
P.G. Wodehouse
#76. I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.
Brenda Lee
#77. Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.
Andrew Dominik
#78. Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical.
Loretta Swit
#79. If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.
Amanda Abbington
#80. For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!
Dwayne Johnson
#81. And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.
James Earl Jones
#82. I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.
Cary Elwes
#83. Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree ... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.
William Raspberry
#84. I would love to be friends with Kendrick Lamar because I am just a huge fan of his music, I think he is so cool and he uses so many interesting sounds and has such good melodies and is just a beautiful rapper, his raps are just so well-written and his tracks are so insane, I am obsessed with him.
Alana Haim
#85. I improvise whenever I feel it's important, or whenever I think that something's there. It's nice to have a script that's so well-written that I don't have to improvise. I mean, I used to have to re-write whole movies; this is kind of nice.
Bill Murray
#87. Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.
Frank Sinatra
#88. You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.
John McTiernan
#89. How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
Ernest Hemingway,
#90. All of you favorite books wouldn't seem so well written if you were just a little bit more well read.
Craig Finn
#91. I think you have to be in an insane stratosphere in terms of fame in order to get offered really well-written scripts. Amanda Peet is definitely not in that group.
Amanda Peet
#92. Norman Cherry wrote on Twitter:
'Recently finished reading War on Wheels: a wonderful account of the people and systems necessary to fight a successful war. I really enjoyed reading it. Thoroughly researched, well written, very accessible and suitable for specialist or general reader.
Philip Hamlyn Williams
#93. She found that books, the well-written ones, had the power to transport her from a world that was sometimes overstressed and over stimulating to a wholly new place of the author's imaginations.
J.N. LaVelle
#94. My dear," she had said to Mamma, "I could not bring myself to give the child anything that was not well written,
Marcel Proust
#95. I think the goal is to make a well written scene seem like it's improvised and/or to come up with things that you find in the room that you couldn't have known until you get into the real situation, just try to improve things as you go along.
Robert Downey Jr.
#96. Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.
Joseph Addison
#97. as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century
Oscar Wilde
#98. There's still a place for someone to come up with a strong headline, some copy in a commercial that's well written. I'm not saying it was better in the old days; it's just a totally different way of communicating.
Jerry Della Femina
#100. I love working that way, and that's sort of the way that Mark, Jay, and I have been working for years, where we start with scripts that are really solid and well-written. But once we get into the scene and we start doing the work, we definitely loosen things up.
Steve Zissis
