Quotes about Written
YOU, what YOU fear,
what YOU have not
been willing to speak
about. Be willing to be
split open.
Natalie Goldberg
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The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental. Votes: 3
Charles Thomas NewtonI got my job through the New York Times. [Written underneath:] So did Castro. Votes: 3
Robert ReisnerWritten kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way. Votes: 3
Franz KafkaI love Written in Red can't wait until next month when the next one comes out!!! Votes: 3
Ann BishopWritten forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise. Votes: 3
Ferdinand de SaussureWritten words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature Votes: 3
Nadine GordimerBooks must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauUsually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts. Votes: 0
Richard Paul EvansThe history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels. Votes: 0
Robert Green IngersollProbably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen. Votes: 0
Joseph WambaughI tend to play characters that arent supposed to black or written black. Votes: 0
Megalyn EchikunwokeLanguage does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written. Votes: 0
Richard BrautiganI think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellNo literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures. Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson TozerHistory is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything. Votes: 0
Jeffrey D. SachsIf you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you. Votes: 0
Bruce SpringsteenNot only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them. Votes: 0
Elisabeth Schussler FiorenzaA woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. Votes: 0
Lawrence DurrellThe first draft doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be written! Votes: 0
Heather RobinsonMy books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them. Votes: 0
Jorge Luis BorgesIt is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it! Votes: 0
Thomas A. Edisonhave written my first grateful thanks for a fresh new day in a new year. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaI play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music. Votes: 0
Johann Sebastian BachStrange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes. Votes: 0
Ludwig van BeethovenLike every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.
Gilbert K. ChestertonManifesto. Read my Manifesto. I`ve written a Manifesto. It`s all in the Manfesto!
Theodore KaczynskiA book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.
Margaret Bourke-WhiteIt is written in my life-blood, such that it is, thick or thin; and I can no other.
J. R. R. TolkienThe book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.
Clifford GeertzIt is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.
Francis James GrimkeA man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
Francois RabelaisI've never written a hard journalism piece in my life. I've never wanted to do that.
Laurence ShamesLet such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
Alexander PopeLately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.
Brandon SandersonNothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.
Harold BrodkeyWhen Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.
Billy EckstineThere is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.
Carl SandburgI believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.
Dean Wesley SmithI've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.
Gloria GaynorWhen I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader
Guillermo Cabrera InfanteI sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.
Justin HaywardMy trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.
Louis-Ferdinand CelineIn the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.
Salman RushdieCertain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.
Seneca the YoungerMaybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world.
Terry PratchettWe have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.
Tristan TzaraI've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
Brian WilsonNo one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
David Foster WallaceI never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.
Jorge Luis BorgesI would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.
L. Ron HubbardIf I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
Laurence HousmanIf a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
Patrice LeconteEvery drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.
Spencer WellsThe written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.
Walter MoersIâve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.
Andrea GibsonThere could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.
Cornelia FunkeThe better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
Ernest HemingwayWhen someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.
Henning MankellThere's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.
Jane AlisonAt some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.
Jane HirshfieldPoetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.
Kenneth KochThe number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible.
Louis B. MayerRhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.
Louis Eric BarrierI've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.
Phil ElvrumI never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
Philip LarkinI only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.
Charles DickensLive each day, as if it we're your last. It's written in the stars, your destiny is cast.
Elvis PresleyI'm really worried about my girlfriend's morals ... she has NEXT written on her knickers.
Frank CarsonClassical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.
Frank ZappaThe history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.
Fulton J. SheenEverything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
Henrik IbsenPreaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.
John SeldenI've always found that working through ideas in written form really changes the thinking.
Scott D. AnthonyI have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation
Taylor CaldwellThere are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
Andre BretonPeople will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.
Andy PartridgeI have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.
Anne LamottWhat is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this coverâ¦
Anne RiceEveryone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
Ernest HemingwayGod is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
Honore de BalzacThe best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word.
John NewtonThe Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.
Judah SmithSwimming Pool was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.
Ludivine SagnierIt was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!
Marc AndreessenWe are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.
Mark StrandIf true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.
Michael CrichtonThere is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors...
Miguel de IcazaIf a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.
Robert BreaultI've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.
Ryan PhillippeA good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
W. Somerset MaughamA lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.
Agyness Deyn... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.
Alice KahnAlan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.
Dave KozCertain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.
Elvis CostelloThe thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.
Georg C. LichtenbergThere are many things I've written that I didn't really understand until a long time later.
Harry MathewsTextbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important.
James W. LoewenThe certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
Jorge Luis BorgesThere is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.
Katherine MansfieldI'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.
Michael StipeOut of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.
Raymond CruzA musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.
Sri ChinmoyI'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read.
Suze OrmanI'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.
William BeckettNovels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
William GibsonAnyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
Andy RooneyNovels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.
Annie DillardI've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
Bob DylanPeople say history was written by the winners. No, it wasn't. It was written by the bullies.
Colin QuinnThe three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.
Daniel MendelsohnMost of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.
Dave GrohlTime lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.
Erik LarsonYou can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.
Giovannino GuareschiI am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
Ion TiriacSo much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
James ThurberI've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
Leif Garrettevery story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged
Max BarryThere are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.
Richard ArmourI am moved, shaken, and when it is all over, I look at wonder at what is written or painted.
Robert KanigherA new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved.
Sarah Ban BreathnachIt was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.
Terry PratchettNothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.
Thomas JeffersonI am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.
Virginia WoolfI hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.
Anna QuindlenThe First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity.
Bryan FischerI have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.
Charlie KaufmanI've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person.
Erik RutanWritten kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
Franz KafkaEvery word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.
Franz KafkaThe words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
Gottfried LeibnizIf my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.
Henri MatisseOnly when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.
Jean FritzI'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.
Maggie SmithI always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.
Marie LuIn the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.
Pablo NerudaIt's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
Robert HassWith a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.
Robert RingerNormally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.
St. LuciaI could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.
Caitlin MoranYou are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.
Derwin L. GrayA star is extinguished, another will begin to shine - thus it is written in the Book of Nature
Guido von ListThe Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image.
Howard G. HendricksWhat happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.
James FentonIt was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.
Jessica LangeIf someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'
Jim GaffiganIt's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.
Joan DidionBooks are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.
Lewis BuzbeeThings written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.
Margaret AtwoodThose who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
Mark TwainI have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
May SartonYour tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject.
Raoul PeckOnce GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.
Richard StallmanAll songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.
Beth Nielsen ChapmanThings which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.
Bram CohenCourts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.
Charles BukowskiYou know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases.
Chuck DI've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.
Donna TarttI have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
Edward AbbeyThe influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.
Geoffrey BeeneI like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.
James SalterThere they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
Nathaniel Parker WillisI'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.
Neil FarberMathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus
Nicolaus CopernicusTrue glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the ElderWhen you get back into the editing suite in the cold light of day, the written stuff is better.
Ricky GervaisOne thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.
SjonHave you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?
Sue Monk KiddI've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
Taiye SelasiThe reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter BagehotWhatever was written in the media was beyond me. The only thing I could control was getting fit.
Andrew FlintoffHe is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.
Archibald Alexander HodgeI don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.
Duncan SheikLooking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
Edward BellamyIf you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.
Emma DonoghueNature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.
Kjell Bloch SandvedAll music written by a Christian should be as integrated as everything else done by a Christian.
Larry NormanMusic is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.
Nellie MelbaEvery song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.
Ne-YoSometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."
Tom StoppardAt least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.
William T. VollmannRather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.
Antonio TabucchiI've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage.
David CrossMy greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves.
Elisabeth of WiedThere is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.
Ellen G. WhiteThe Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to #" change our lives.
Howard G. HendricksIt is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying....
John AshberyStrength of character is already written. What we bring, as an actor, is an almost 3D-ness to it.
Priyanka ChopraThis contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.
Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron EvershedSociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.
Robert BlyKnowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.
Robert MacfarlaneI would make the point that I have written repeatedly about the working class in Yamhill, Oregon.
Tucker CarlsonI know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerA lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.
Carrie FisherIt is written that he who governs well, leads the blind; But that he who teaches, gives them eyes.
David O. McKayI learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.
Gregory HarrisonMost of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.
Paul GreengrassI think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen.
RakimBeethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.
Thomas BeechamIt seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful.
Tobias LindholmSo much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.
Trey Parker... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
Amelia BarrI get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.
Anderson CooperTo my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."
Arnold Bennett...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.
Arthur KoestlerMost parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.
Chris Rock