Quotes of: Written-down Keyword

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

Donna Tartt

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

Dan Wakefield

There’s a much different message received, when the signs written in the flesh were not in your hand writing.

Dixie Waters

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

Elizabeth Bowen

God has written His divine guidelines for your life right in the Bible.

Elizabeth George

I've always believed the words that came out of my mouth were most comfortable when I'd written them.

Bob Ehrlich

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

Barbara Kingsolver

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

Beau Willimon

Probably not much of a song left in me, you know, if any, because I've written so many, some 250 songs or 300 or whatever it is.

Brian Wilson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Charles Colson

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

Groucho Marx

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Jean Rostand

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

Julius Streicher

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.

Deana J. Driver

When you first start singing something after you've written it, it has this sort of sparkle to it. And if you capture that, that's luck.

Jesse Harris

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

James Earl Jones

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

Brian Tracy

Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you're going through puberty.

Ian Anderson

'I'm Yours' was written effortlessly in about 20 minutes' time, and I honestly thought it was more of like a kids' song, and I didn't do anything with it for years.

Jason Mraz

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

John McGahern

It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time.

Philip Dunne