I have some tracks and songs written for future collaboration, and I’m happy to work with artists who have the right voice and taste.
As long as there’s breath in our lungs our story is still being written.
I can’t complain that I’ve had a public all through my writing life, but people don’t quite know what I’ve written. People don’t read you too closely. Perhaps, after I’ve died, they’ll look at my stuff, and read it through, and find there’s more in it. That may be wrong, but that’s what I comfort myself with.
Every script I’ve written and every series I’ve produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
My favorite is ‘The Last Coyote.’ I’m not saying that’s the best book I’ve written; I hope I haven’t written my best book yet, but that one was the first book I wrote as a full-time author, with my full-time focus. I have a nostalgic feeling about it.
The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.
The Slobs were written in a very 2D way, but Kathy Burke brought a touching quality to all her characters.
The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity’s most enduring legacies.
Brahms’ Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, ‘A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.’
But I have always – ever since The Accidental Woman – written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.
I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I’ve written a graphic novel. How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
I’ve always written down how I feel.
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
I wish I could have a recurring role on ‘Modern Family’. I think ‘Modern Family’ is the best comedy on television. It’s extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.
A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big global cities – New York, San Francisco – or we focus on cities that are having the toughest time – Detroit, Newark, Camden.
‘L.A. Confidential’ was written with me in mind, but Russell Crowe got the part. Go figure.
In my top five favorite movies is a movie called ‘Heavy Weights.’ I was a chunkier kid and dreamed of going to fat camp with go-karts and stuff. That was written by Judd Apatow.
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it’s not much of my thing to comment on everything that’s written about me.
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
I’ve written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.
All of the narration in ‘Smile’ is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.
Guy Gavriel Kay’s ‘Tigana’ is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. It’s beautifully written, the characters are unforgettable, the worldbuilding is exquisite.
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.
Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‘I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.’ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‘Yes, I deserve it.’
All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other people’s backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability.
I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.
The stories of kids who grew up in communities like mine weren’t being written about in many books for kids.
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn’t matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author… if it doesn’t sell any papers, it’s not a good column. It’s a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that’s the whole thing.
I sometimes don’t know what songs are about for several years after I’ve written them.
The Bill of Rights isn’t some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
‘The Ballad of Black Tom’ was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft’s legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me.
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.
People who are offended by the Ten Commandments have a deeper problem than the stone that it’s written on, I think.
Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.
You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what’s his favorite composition? And I say, I haven’t written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions.
I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I’ve wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.
Bike riding is great for your thinking. I can’t say I’ve written an entire tune while cycling, but riding has definitely inspired songwriting ideas.
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
Let me tell you something you already know: reading is critically important – especially for Christian believers. God, after all, reveals Himself to us in the written words of Scripture. Think about it: when we read the Word, we place ourselves in the very presence of God.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
My heart’s toward youth ministry, but I don’t know. I never would have thought I would have written a book. And God kind of directed that. So we’ll see what the next is.
Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.
On my tombstone, I want written: ‘He never did ‘Love Boat!’
Written reports stifle creativity.
I have written to Cabinet Minister Venkaiah Naidu to add a stuntman category in the National Awards to appreciate the work they do.
It’s certainly not easy for an outsider to make a mark because they don’t know anyone. You don’t get written about as nobody knows who you are. So, you don’t get that much attention when you are doing something compared to people that the media is aware of.
If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.
