Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein

History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchill

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark Twain

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Aristotle

History should be written as philosophy.
Voltaire

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
Bob Dylan

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
Steven Wright

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Martin Luther

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
John Steinbeck

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
Groucho Marx

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
Herbert Spencer

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost