Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.
Stephen Ambrose

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

And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character.
Mary Tyler Moore

Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.
Mary Tyler Moore

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

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

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

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

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

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
Bo Bennett

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

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
David Allan Coe

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've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.
Bruce Vilanch

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
Jeanette Winterson

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
Eudora Welty

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
Marguerite Young

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

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
Randy Newman

Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that .
Diana Ross