Top 1200 Well-Written Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

If your character is written well and is meaty enough, even two scenes has the potential to stand out.

The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.

Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.

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.

I know it's boring to say this but I always start with the script. I mean if it's well written and it's a character that I haven't necessarily played before.

I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the drawer and said, 'Well, I did that.'

I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

It's kind of cool that I know of all this great science fiction being written in China, and most of it is not really well-known in the West.

Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'

I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel.

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.

Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.

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.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.

Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.

Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent. It probably takes me longer to write things, but it's very important to me that the writing itself be good.

Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it.

Most agents hate prologues. Just make the first chapter relevant and well written.

It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.

If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.

The question now becomes about defining your terms. What is literature? Unless we allow it to encompass the oral tradition from which it grew, which means taking it back to Homer and beyond, it demands the written word - poetry and prose. [Bob] Dylan is no slouch at the written word, both in its own right, and transcribed from his lyrics, which have often been acclaimed as poetry and may well stand up as such. But that is not his métier.

A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them.

A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters.

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

I get on really well with Jake Gosling, who is a great producer, and I have written a song with Fraser T Smith.

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

One of things that drives me nuts is you rarely get bad guys who are written very well.

When you're a working actor you see a lot of scripts all the time, but to get to do something that's really well written it's a rare privilege.

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

Well, unlike a lot of authors, I will be the one to cop to having a ghostwriter. I've always written with someone else.

I've written for Rita Ora; I've written for Chiddy Bang - there's been a few.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books don't get written by thinking about them, they get written by writing them. And that's when you make discoveries about what you're writing. That's when you get the happy accidents.

What I learned from doing The Graduate was it doesnt matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.