Written Quotes - Page 38

• History is, as we know, written by the winners.

  Rachel Martin

  Winner, Knows

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Television, Theater, Critics

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Lying, Reading, Emotional

  Source: nerdbastards.com

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• I don't remember the first poem that I wrote because I've been creating poems since I was around 2 or 3. I don't have any memory of that but my mom has written evidence of it. I've always liked playing with words so when I was younger it had a lot more to do with rhyme and sounds.

  Sarah Kay

  Mom, Memories, Creating

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• Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it....I personally know so many poets that work a 9 to 5 in a cubicle and come home and write poetry. Their poetry is just as powerful and moving as anything that I've ever written, if not more.

  Sarah Kay

  Powerful, Real, Moving

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• In terms of the films I make, I'm just more excited about it if I've written it. It's like living in a house that you've built rather than a rental.

  Frank Whaley

  House, Film, Excited

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.

  Jeff Dunham

  People, Biographies, Ghost

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical, but I think each song is self-contained. I think it fits together as a picture of the last half-decade of time.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Thinking, Self

  "Desaparecidos' Conor Oberst: We're perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying". Interview with Jessica Goodman, ew.com. July 7, 2015.

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• We're in a strange state in our world where we sort of have that belief - and I have it too - that if it's written down there's got to be some truth in it. We haven't quite got to the spot where you go: "Well, it doesn't necessarily mean it's true." It could actually be completely made up and made to look very nice. So, we have to get to the point where scandal and those kinds of things are less and less important because otherwise we won't have anyone willing to run as politicians.

  George Clooney

  Running, Nice, Mean

  "The Ides of March - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process of writing. It's the same thing with reading - you lose yourself when you read as well. When I was younger I used literature that way, it was just escapism, a tool to run away from things.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Running, Reading, Writing

  ""Something that's not yourself." — An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

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• I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.

  David Bezmozgis

  Book, Thinking, Reactions

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, "This is our story, and this is who we are," and sort of this navel-gazing, narcissistic approach to comedy we're seeing these days.

  Tim Heidecker

  Book, Eric, Gazing

  "Tim and Eric Are Bringing Down Scientology With Jokes". Interview with Jill Krasny, www.esquire.com. July 8, 2015.

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• Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

  George Sand

  Life Is, Sin, Repentance

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• The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, Hands, Body

  Theodore Parker (1859). “The critical and miscellaneous writings of Theodore Parker”, p.123

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• my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Two, Stories

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1957). “The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book”

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• Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for the most part.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Firsts, Chickens, Mines

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• The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Fleeting, Argument, Endure

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• It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can.

  Barack Obama

  Night, Destiny, Yes We Can

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books

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• In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.

  Dante Alighieri

  Memories, Book, Purpose

  Dante Alighieri (2015). “La Vita Nuova: The New Life”, p.12, The Floating Press

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• I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

  Ilka Chase

  Book, Eye, Voice

  Ilka Chase (1963). “Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

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• To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but is it useful? ... The recent prevalence of these hot histories on publishers' lists raises the question: Should - or perhaps can - history be written while it is still smoking?

  Barbara Tuchman

  History, Smoking, Events

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.25, Random House

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• What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water.
  [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti,
  In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]

  Catullus

  Love, Air, Aqua

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• The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.

  Catullus

  Air, Lovers, Fit

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• if I believed that the choice lay between a sacrifice of the completest order of biography and that of the inviolability of private epistolary correspondence, I could not hesitate for a moment. I would keep the old and precious privacy,-the inestimable right of every one who has a friend and can write to him, - I would keep our written confidence from being made biographical material, as anxiously as I would keep our spoken conversation from being noted down for the good of society.

  Harriet Martineau

  Writing, Sacrifice, Order

  Harriet Martineau (1845). “Life in the Sick-room: Essays”, p.92

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• It is not quite true that there are no good letters written in America: among my own circle of correspondents there, there are ladies and gentlemen whose letters would stand a comparison with any for frankness, grace, and epistolary beauty of every kind. But I am not aware of any medium between this excellence and the boarding-school insignificance which characterizes the rest.

  Harriet Martineau

  School, Circles, America

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.110

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