Quotes of: Written-down Keyword

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

Julia Barr

The word that is heard perishes, but the letter that is written remains.

Traditional

God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players down here. We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke, each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written her script, too. And a sorry one it was.

Flowers in the Attic

It's only a story.' As if such words made it less real. But I did not believe him even then, for stories were written down, and the words on the page were proof enough. Fixed and permanent in time, the words, if anything, made the people and places m...

The Stolen Child

The law is that you must live in the house you have built. The law is absurd: it is written down nowhere. You are uncertain what crime is, though each life writhing to elude what it has made feels like punishment.

Watching the Spring Festival: Poems

I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail fro...

Fury: A Memoir

If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, ...

Barton Gellman

If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written for the page, your eye can skip up and down. You can see the thing whole. But you're not going to see the thing whole in ...

James Fenton

I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you're in, like words floating by. It's something that I didn't start thinking about until recently, but you can hitch that ride, that nar...

Bill Callahan

No book is written; it's always re-written

A Glimpse At Happiness

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

Mark Rylance

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.

Bryan Cranston

I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

Patrice Leconte

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

Patrice Leconte

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

David Allan Coe

Prince Feisal: Gasim's time has come, Lawrence. It is written. T.E. Lawrence: Nothing is written. Sherif Ali: You will not be at Aqaba, English! Go back, blasphemer... but you will not be at Aqaba! T.E. Lawrence: I shall be at Aqaba. That, IS written...

Lawrence of Arabia

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

Paul Dano

It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.

Richard Marx

Erica Albright: The Internet's not written in pencil, Mark, it's written in ink.

The Social Network

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.

Chris Rock