Quotes of: Written Keyword

And why don't you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it. I know why you haven't written. (And why I didn't write before the age of twenty-seven.) Because writing is at once too high, too great for you, it's re...

The Laugh of the Medusa

The Resurrection, and its consequences, were the 'gospel' or good news which the Christians brought: what we call the 'gospels', the narratives of Our Lord's life and death, were composed later for the benefit of those who had already accepted the . ...

C.S. Lewis

Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.

Criticisms and Appreciations of the works of Charles Dickens

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

Candide

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

The Consolations of Philosophy

Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.

COLOMBO STREETS

Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

Dead in the Family

Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.

Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert

The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.

Discipline: The Glad Surrender

A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

If you find that you “disagree” with something I’ve written, then you missed the point!!

Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works

Next to the first Henry and Meg, Henry had written, “Promise?” Well, that genie’s out of the bottle and there’s no stuffing her back in.

Glass Girl

Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.

The Gospel of Loki

True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.

On the Heights of Despair

In my experience, the romance novels written about BDSM have about as much in common with actual BDSM relationships as a child playing with a jump rope.

Bound to Accept

How can a man know how to live rightly on the face of earth? By daily reading and meditation on the Holy Scriptures and obedience to what is written.

Beautiful Quotes

trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.

City of Ashes

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.

Gene Barry

Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum of technology, and can be published, in most cases, quite cheaply.

James Fenton