Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
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.
I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.
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.
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.
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.
Envy isn’t always green; it’s often black and white!" (On book reviews - from an article written in 2013)
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.
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.
Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.
Always think twice before responding in anger. Words and written communication cannot be taken back. Chances are you’ll feel differently tomorrow.
Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.
I like a little movie I did in the early nineties called 'Mortal Thoughts.' The part was hardly written, but I learned a lot making it. No one remembers it.
My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.
If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.
I'll usually see a scene in my head, playing like a movie trailer. After I've written that scene, everything takes off from there.
The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
