Top 25 Written Quotes of 317 - Page 12

The written word is everything.

John Drinkwater

Written Word, Written

John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

John Bercow

Newspapers, Written, Uninterested

I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.

John Banville

Thinking, Written

The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lasts, Advantage, Written Word

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.134, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.

Joan Armatrading

Way, Written

"I prefer birdsong to chatter". Interview with Helen Birch, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2005.

If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'

Jim Gaffigan

Want, Wow, Written

"Interview: Jim Gaffigan Talks Family, Food And Dad Is Fat". Interview with Samantha Abernethy, chicagoist.com. May 10, 2013.

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

Jeff Ament

Song, Bass, Written

"Special Feature: Pearl Jam". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. March 30, 2001.

Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.

Jeanette Winterson

Writing, Written

"52: Episode 29" by by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes,, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2008.

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

Jayson Blair

Painful, Written

I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.

Jason Lee

Months, Can Do, Written

Source: www.movieweb.com

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

Jared Harris

Television, Written

Source: collider.com

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

Janeane Garofalo

Fiction, Said, Written

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Long, Senses, Written

Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Kenneth J. Fielding (2006). “The collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle”

I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.

James Salter

Writing, Certain, Written

"The Last Book" by Nick Paumgarten, www.newyorker.com. April 15, 2013.

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

James Lafferty

Stories, Half, Written Word

I have talked quite long enough about my own follies. The thing is to finish the thing as devised and then let it be judged. But forgive me! It is written in my life-blood, such as that is, thick or thin; and I can no other.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Blood, Written, Thick

"The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien".

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

Iris DeMent

Causes, Feels, Written

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.

Ian MacKaye

Problem, Behinds, Written

"A Conversation with Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson". Spin Interview, www.spin.com. July 22, 2003.

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.

Hortense Calisher

Writing, Most Powerful, Written

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

Horace

Spoken Word, Written Word, Recalls