Quotes of: Written Keyword

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Virginia Woolf

'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

Madeleine Albright

What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?

Bill Goldberg

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

George W. Bush

For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.

Stacy Schiff

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

Grant Morrison

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

Katey Sagal

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

Marilyn vos Savant

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

A. S. Byatt

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

W. Somerset Maugham

When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.

James Earl Jones

I have a folder where I keep all the articles the critics have written about me. It makes me feel good.

Norman Wisdom

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Walter Bagehot

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.

Richard Flanagan

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

Bob Barr

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.

Curt Schilling

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

Hanns Eisler

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

Shirley MacLaine

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

Sally Ride

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

Heather Brooke