Written Quotes - Page 24

• Porgy is...an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.

  George Gershwin

  Men, Interesting, Example

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• There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply exactly the person who wants to read what I have written...

  Will Self

  Race, Class, Ideas

  "Will Self". Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2007.

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• Long ago I abandoned my masterpiece a roll of paper thirty yards long which I filled completely with minute handwriting in my dungeon years ago It vanished when the Bastille fell it vanished as everything written everything thought and planned will disappear

  Peter Weiss

  Long Ago, Years, Dungeons

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.98, A&C Black

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• Anything said off the cuff has usually been written on it first.

  Robin Skelton

  Cuffs, Firsts, Said

  1991 A Devious Dictionary.

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• The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph.

  Anne Lamott

  Differences, Pages, Seven

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.

  Anne Lamott

  My Family, Deals, Has Beens

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the tricks of poetry, such as dense imagery. This is a big topic of debate in poetry land. There's no perfect definition.

  Campbell McGrath

  Land, Perfect, Use

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• I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.

  James Taylor

  Song, Home, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't know if I've ever written anything that's not a bill! I do write stories but I don't put a stamp on them. I wrote a story for my wife over Christmas and gave it to her as a present because she asked me to, but I don't put a stamp on things and send them to people.

  Channing Tatum

  Writing, People, Wife

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that would be disturbing. It will be disturbing theater with songs. There will be no people on wires. That's probably the next one of those things on my bucket list of things that I need to write before I get hit by that car.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, Writing, Car

  "Neil Gaiman Talks AMERICAN GODS, DOCTOR WHO, Writing a Musical, Ray Bradbury, China and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2011.

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• Chris [ Nolan] and I have a strange way of working from the non-movie process, where after all these conversations and reading the script and more conversations, Chris went out and shot the films and the first thing he did, he wouldn't show it to me until I had written the music - not out of meanness, or anything, it just sort of seemed an interesting idea to see if there was some synchronicity and letting me use my imagination to the fullest instead of being constricted by cuts and images.

  Christopher Nolan

  Reading, Cutting, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think the role of style is different for a woman of any age. Style, to me, is about experimenting with what gives you pleasure, a joyous expression of imagination. I emphasize joyous because too much is written about fashion that takes the pleasure away - clothes that make you look thinner or clothes that make you look younger or, horrors, clothes that make other people envy you or that - double horrors - are "age appropriate".

  Elizabeth Heyert

  Fashion, Thinking, Expression

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think the writing and the casting and all of that has so much to do with actors becoming their characters. I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that and the words that are on the page, depending on how it's written, can really help your character develop.

  Scott Michael Foster

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Ideas, Events, Artistic

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• The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art.

  Leonard Shlain

  Art, Book, Profound

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• For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate, it was pretty close.

  Chris Espinosa

  Wire, Boards, Three

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• I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to be useless and ineffectual. There must be some meaning to me, if not to my life; there must surely be some purpose that has my name written on it. If this is not so, if I am deceiving myself about this too, then why should I want to become real? What reason have I to live anywhere?

  Peter S. Beagle

  Real, Talking, Names

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro. I didn't [paint] just as a historical thing, but because I believe these things tie up with the Negro today. We don't have a physical slavery, but an economic slavery. If these people, who were so much worse off than the people today, could conquer their slavery, we can certainly do the same thing....I am not a politician. I'm an artist, just trying to do my part to bring this thing about.

  Jacob Lawrence

  Believe, School, Artist

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• I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own experiences of living - will always have a Hero and a Heroine, a Fairy Godmother and a Wicked Witch.

  Lucinda Riley

  Believe, Hero, Godmother

  Lucinda Riley (2011). “The Girl on the Cliff”, p.407, Penguin UK

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• Empty Cradle, Broken Heart is written with great awareness and sensitivity. Deborah Davis gets it just right.

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Heart, Broken, Awareness

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• Legal documents have mistrust written all over them. It's unfortunate, but the human DNA is so tuned to kind of taking you for granted that we tend to protect ourselves legally. That's why I don't read them as, if I read them, I will go soft. To me, the human relationship is far more important than the professional bond I share with anyone.

  Karan Johar

  Dna, Important, Kind

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• The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lasts, Advantage, Written Word

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.134, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Writing, Affair, Good History

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Selected Essays”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.

  Tacitus

  Saws, Manners, Glances

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• Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

  Marianne Moore

  Reading, People, Results

  "Marianne Moore, Poet of Affection". Book by Pamela White Hadas, p. 6, 1977.

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