Quotes of: Written-down Keyword

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Eleanor Roosevelt

They have no discipline. They’ll still need us.” “Ha!” said Postel. “No discipline? Behold!!!! My cat has written a book! ...And she's published!" — Amok 2015

Fred Barnett

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

Francis Quarles

I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

Cary Elwes

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.

Charles Guggenheim

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

Chaim Potok

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?'

Charlie Trotter

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.

Helen Vendler

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.

Jonathan Ames

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

Joyce Brothers

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

Jorge Luis Borges

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Jorge Luis Borges

I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts.

John Conyers

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

Dean Wesley Smith

There are some songs that don't belong to The Animals that I refuse to give in to and not do. I enjoy singing other people's songs, you know. That's why they're written in the first place.

Eric Burdon

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

Edward Coke

After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

Erle Stanley Gardner

Envy isn’t always green; it’s often black and white!" (On book reviews - from an article written in 2013)

Eric J. Gates

Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars; under development is not one of God's mysterious designs.

Eduardo Galeano

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Ernest Hemingway