Best Written Quotes

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.

History is written by winners.

Where is it written that a smart woman can’t also be stacked?

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can’t make laws. And if we accept the notion that their dictates are law, then we have not only submitted to tyranny, we have abandoned a republican form of government.

When anything important has to be written … I think your hand concentrates for you.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name. Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

We have so many different options now and ways to communicate digitally. But I don’t think anything is more meaningful or powerful than a hand-written letter.

For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.

I love writing. I’ve always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE SAND. I let the paper blow away, reached down and picked up a fragment of shell. Kneeling there under the vault of the sky, I wrote several words, one above the other. Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

I’ve never heard a song written from a stepmother’s point of view, about their family.

Ideas aren’t magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Our perception of songs that we’ve written… the meaning changes from day to day… to whatever stage we’re at in our life and careers.

There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman’s famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.

I’ve always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It’s up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost’s is most likely to stand the test of time

It’s amazing what I could’ve written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.

You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.

When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.

I’ve written virtually as long as I’ve acted, it wasn’t a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it’s the transparency that counts.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I’d never have written a line.

I never thought I’d write, because I’d never written anything in my whole life.