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I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

Sergey Brin

A constitutional tradition that works is one that is in a constant state of dynamic evolution. You have a written constitution that says 'x,' but no constitutional system works if it just follows what's in that written constitution and never changes....

Noah Feldman

It is very annoying - things have been written by people who didn't know me at all or Princess Diana. They were written by people who never knew me or met me. It did make me angry. I just stopped reading the papers.

Hasnat Khan

I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.

Dana Carvey

Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

Irvine Welsh

Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has al...

Viggo Mortensen

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

Alan Jackson

Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.

Patrick Stump

They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!

William Glasser

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.

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

History isn't written by the winners - it's written by everyone - it's a jigsaw of facts from contradictory sources. But every once in a while, you unearth that one original document that no one can argue with...

The Inner Circle

Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called.  

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

I keep a fish in each pocket, and one in my left shoe, so I don’t drown in your love.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

I’d rate myself five stars, and those stars would all be fish. My review was of how well I walked on the beach.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

I water my driveway, and I drive a hard bargain to work (it gets great gas mileage).

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

Despite marking the spot, Generation X has no treasure. How could they, when I dug it up first?

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

My love may be invisible, but that doesn’t mean you can’t taste it. (It tastes like a sonic boom, only not as bitter).

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

If I can delay your action with my inaction, then I’ll gladly do nothing for the good of the no good.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

I’ll never be as old as someone older than me, but I can be older than them if I outlive their lifespan.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

Am I the only guy that holds a flute of champagne like it’s a musical instrument?

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks