Top 1200 Written Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.

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

Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then you are certain that every word you have written is an important word to have written and that any word you have written is as important as any other word and you keep everything you have written with great care.

People say history was written by the winners. No, it wasn't. It was written by the bullies.

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

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

Michael Chiesa has written me off as many other men have written me off. As the Vegas oddsmakers have written me off, as the UFC has time and time again and time again written me off. As they have written me off to not be the Ultimate Fighter winner.

I just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written a poem that is a kind of parody of a garrulous poet at a poetry reading who spends an inordinate amount of time explaining the poem before reading it, I've written a number of satirical poems about other poets.

Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.

Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

'Spoonman' wasn't written for any album. It was just written for fun.

We've never written anything to have success with it. We've written songs that we love.

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

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?'

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

The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.

A lot of what I've written that's made its way onto my records I've written in Kansas, which is interesting because I've never written about Kansas. But I go have these experiences. and I'll be back at my parents house, and it's like I'm in a safe incubator.

How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - I will venture to say, will be written!

Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.

I never felt like a happy-go-lucky ingenue to begin with. And parts are written better when you're older. When you're young, you're written to be an ingenue, and you're written to be a quality. You're actually not written to be a person, you're written for your youth to inspire someone else, usually a man. So I find it just much more liberating.

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

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

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

Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please the seller. The interests of the buyer are forgotten.

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

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

History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.

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

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

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

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

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.

I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.

I've always written about other artists, or I write my thoughts down, but I've never written a story.

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches - I was a speechwriter on 'The West Wing,' so I like that kind of thing. But I never really thought I'd write a book.

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

In contrast to a dream a reverie cannot be recounted. To be communicated, it must be written, written with emotion and taste, being relived all the more strongly because it is being written down. Here, we are touching the realm of written love. It is going out of fashion, but the benefits remain. There are still souls for whom love is the contact of two poetries, the fusion of two reveries.

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.

And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.

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.

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - whats written and not written.

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

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

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

With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting.

Most of everything I've ever written actually was written on acoustic. 'Do You Feel' was written on electric. 'I'm in You' was written on piano.

Well, I hate it when authors come into a school and they say to kids, 'Write from your heart, only write what you know, and write from your heart.' I hate that because it's useless. I've written over 300 books - not one was written from my heart. Not one. They were all written for an audience, they were all written to entertain a certain audience.

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television - or just written.

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

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.