If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace Thackeray

You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.
Elle Macpherson

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
Victoria Abril

Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.
Studs Terkel

You're a song written by the hands of God.
Shakira

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
William Golding

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
Robert Smith

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
James A. Garfield

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.
Pete Seeger

This autocue was obviously written for someone else and I've been brought in at the last minute.
Johnny Vegas

I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I'm sexy. I think he is too. But I don't go out half-naked with 'sex' written across my back.
Catherine Zeta-Jones

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?
F. Murray Abraham

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Lawrence Durrell

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
Norman MacCaig

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
Sydney Smith

The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
Buffalo Bill

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
Franz Liszt

You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.
John Irving

I like films to be complete in their written form.
Patrice Leconte

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.
Terry Goodkind