Sherif Ali: Truly, for some men nothing is written unless THEY write it.
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.
Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.
I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
I love Written in Red can't wait until next month when the next one comes out!!!
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
Today, it's possible to read both erotica and books written for children without fear of social castigation.
A book written within, contains ideas and thoughts from all over, where each page explains itself.
How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama!
If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison
The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'
From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.
'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.
Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping it's life away. To hell with that," he said, "shake th...
