Written Quotes - Page 8

Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything.

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

History is written by winners.

I don't have anything against this Jesus guy, but has he written, directed, and starred in his own movie?

I've never really [written] something that was inspired.

We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.

The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.

I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.

I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.

A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.

It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."

The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

I often reread books I have written

Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.

Happy is the day whose history is not written down.

I'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read.

Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written.