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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Samuel Butler

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of 'balance' and 'deterrence'.

Alva Myrdal

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

James Nesbitt

Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.

Philip Yancey

Most of the stuff I've written has never even gotten made. It's par for the course. It's a great living, but it also gets very frustrating.

Scott Aukerman

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

Adrian Edmondson

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.

Caroline Corr

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

Matthew Bourne

There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

Pamela Stephenson

Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.

Richard Bausch

People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good.

Terry Gilliam

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Theodore Sturgeon

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

Walter Bagehot

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight.

Burt Ward

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

Dylan Thomas

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

C. S. Lewis

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

Harry Stack Sullivan

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

Jeffery Deaver

People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way.

Aidan Gillen

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

Abraham Verghese