An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart. Votes: 4
Conrad VeidtIt is written that he who governs well, leads the blind; But that he who teaches, gives them eyes. Votes: 4
David O. McKayIt is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down. Votes: 3
HadewijchIt is written in my life-blood, such that it is, thick or thin; and I can no other. Votes: 3
J. R. R. TolkienIt is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying.... Votes: 3
John AshberyMusic is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer. Votes: 3
Nellie MelbaPerforming written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me. Votes: 2
Carter BurwellEverything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write. Votes: 2
Charlie KaufmanNowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China. Votes: 2
Joe BidenWhat I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it. Votes: 2
Michael KorytaMy favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it. Votes: 2
Jean-Michel BasquiatWatchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction. Votes: 2
Gerard WayEvery song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?' Votes: 2
Daron MalakianIt seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. Votes: 2
Brooks AtkinsonWhat is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it. Votes: 2
Joseph WambaughWhat is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. Votes: 2
Allen TateIt's interesting when something's written about you, and there's comments after. Votes: 0
Alison StewartWinston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'. Votes: 0
Arthur BalfourNo literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowLanguage does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written. Votes: 0
Richard BrautiganWhen the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Votes: 0
Stephen SondheimI have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it. Votes: 0
Laurie AndersonTelevision doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars. Votes: 0
Chevy ChaseNot only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them. Votes: 0
Elisabeth Schussler FiorenzaThe Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures. Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson TozerIf you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you. Votes: 0
Bruce SpringsteenHis legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it. Votes: 0
Patrick WhiteHistory isn't written by the winners OR the losers; it's written by the writers. Votes: 0
Alan C. BairdNothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does. Votes: 0
Frank SinatraThe written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country. Votes: 0
William GibsonLiterature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. Votes: 0
Amos OzI've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble. Votes: 0
Kate ChristensenIt is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it! Votes: 0
Thomas A. EdisonThe first draft doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be written! Votes: 0
Heather RobinsonOur love story is not written yet, it is mix of stupidity, fun and devotion. Votes: 0
M.F. MoonzajerWhat I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am. Votes: 0
Hortense CalisherManifesto. Read my Manifesto. I`ve written a Manifesto. It`s all in the Manfesto! Votes: 0
Theodore KaczynskiI've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it. Votes: 0
Hunter ParrishI have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years. Votes: 0
Eve BuntingThe great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamI play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music. Votes: 0
Johann Sebastian BachI never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it. Votes: 0
William FaulknerNo they called it the Codex Merlini because it was written by a guy named Ralph. Votes: 0
Karen ChanceThe history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. Votes: 0
Lytton StracheyI think the Bible should be re-written for today's society. We can call it 'Scrubs.' Votes: 0
Zach BraffSome stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all. Votes: 0
Shannon L. AlderI'm quite an opinionated person, but I'd never written a diary before. I quite like it! Votes: 0
Lily AllenMy father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic. Votes: 0
Eva GreenPeople will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it. Votes: 0
Andy PartridgeThe Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues. Votes: 0
Judah SmithIf true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers. Votes: 0
Michael CrichtonNever criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it. Votes: 0
Johannes BrahmsSo much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it. Votes: 0
James ThurberIt was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettIt's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written. Votes: 0
Robert HassIt's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting. Votes: 0
Adam BrodyAny time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me. Votes: 0
Randy JohnsonThe purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written. Votes: 0
John DufresneLike every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonA elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written. Votes: 0
Morris KlineIt has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. Votes: 0
Nancy HoranA book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share. Votes: 0
Margaret Bourke-WhiteI have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader. Votes: 0
Isaac AsimovThere is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward. Votes: 0
Carl SandburgI've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money. Votes: 0
Brian WilsonPeople say history was written by the winners. No, it wasn't. It was written by the bullies. Votes: 0
Colin QuinnMost of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage. Votes: 0
Dave GrohlYou can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it. Votes: 0
Giovannino GuareschiSomeday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong. Votes: 0
Tamora PierceAnd I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written. Votes: 0
Laura WadeIf my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone. Votes: 0
Henri MatisseIsn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinAll speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonLife is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts. Votes: 0
Louis-Ferdinand CelineIt is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts. Votes: 0
Elbert HubbardIt is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time. Votes: 0
Francis James GrimkeI think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it. Votes: 0
S. E. HintonOne never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought! Votes: 0
Gustave FlaubertI think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it. Votes: 0
S. E. HintonThe number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible. Votes: 0
Louis B. MayerLearning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Votes: 0
Adam HamiltonLive each day, as if it we're your last. It's written in the stars, your destiny is cast. Votes: 0
Elvis PresleySometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again. Votes: 0
Thisuri WanniarachchiIt was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it! Votes: 0
Marc AndreessenA lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes. Votes: 0
Agyness DeynOne of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written. Votes: 0
Danielle de NieseI always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars. Votes: 0
Marie LuI could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained. Votes: 0
Caitlin MoranWhat happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. Votes: 0
James FentonIt was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written. Votes: 0
Jessica LangeIt's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it. Votes: 0
Joan DidionI would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man. Votes: 0
Greg GraffinI've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play. Votes: 0
Taiye SelasiI like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it! Votes: 0
Randy NewmanNature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies. Votes: 0
Kjell Bloch SandvedWe did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark. Votes: 0
Helle Thorning-SchmidtStrength of character is already written. What we bring, as an actor, is an almost 3D-ness to it. Votes: 0
Priyanka ChopraSomething's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means. Votes: 0
Debbie HarryIf there's a poster boy for the fact that all essays are written through personae, it's Crèvecoeur. Votes: 0
John D'AgataO Lord, thy will be done in my life as it is written in Heaven in Jesus Name. Amen. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaI hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. Votes: 0
J. J. AbramsA goal that is not written is not a goal. It only becomes real when you write it down. Votes: 0
Bryant McGillWhen something bad is written about me, I find it hurtful. So I choose not to look at it. Votes: 0
Patsy KensitJazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off. Votes: 0
Mitch Kapor... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living. Votes: 0
Alice KahnA star is extinguished, another will begin to shine - thus it is written in the Book of Nature Votes: 0
Guido von ListIt's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict. Votes: 0
Howard CharlesAll songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper. Votes: 0
Beth Nielsen ChapmanOne thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is. Votes: 0
SjonHave you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway? Votes: 0
Sue Monk KiddI could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it. Votes: 0
Bayard TaylorMy greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves. Votes: 0
Elisabeth of WiedThis contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper. Votes: 0
Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron EvershedThe Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to #" change our lives. Votes: 0
Howard G. HendricksEvery pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work. Votes: 0
Amy Sherman-PalladinoIdeas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. Votes: 0
Lynn AbbeyStrange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood. Votes: 0
William CowperYou write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat. Votes: 0
Leo OrnsteinI only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it. Votes: 0
Charles DickensWe are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it. Votes: 0
Mark StrandWhy is it that one of the best songs in the world has to be written by the BeeGees?"Benedict Votes: 0
Tricia WalkerI am moved, shaken, and when it is all over, I look at wonder at what is written or painted. Votes: 0
Robert KanigherIf you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in. Votes: 0
Emma DonoghueIt's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. Votes: 0
Judy BlumeIf there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Votes: 0
Toni MorrisonI haven't written a brochure yet. It's killing me. I know I have a brochure or pamphlet in me yet. Votes: 0
Alan ZweibelIt seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful. Votes: 0
Tobias LindholmSo much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it. Votes: 0
Trey ParkerGods law has been written on all of our consciences, but only in Christ is it written on our hearts. Votes: 0
Alistair BeggA scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. Votes: 0
William HazlittHe is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found. Votes: 0
Archibald Alexander HodgeIf it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeBecause of what I do, it has to be an open book, but right now this is a book that is being written. Votes: 0
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