Written Quotes

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

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

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

Silence was never written down.

When the history of this country is written, when a final accounting is done, it is this small, quiet woman whose name will be remembered long after the names of senators and presidents have been forgotten.

It was an idea, I thought, that could almost be written as a helping tool. People seemed to like the idea that we were doing something like this. I did not go out and solicit from my friends. They came to me.

If a song can't be written in 20 minutes, it ain't worth writing.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

We just sit and drink coffee. There's no (written) agenda and we just come and go as our schedule allows us.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

I often reread books I have written.

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.

None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings.