I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.
Nora Roberts

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Nicolas Chamfort

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
Taye Diggs

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.
Norton Juster

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

The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.
Davey Havok

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
John Grisham

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

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
Sammy Hagar

I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.
Mike Gordon

Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.
Jerry B. Jenkins

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
Ted Rall

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.
Pierre Corneille

I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.
Jerry B. Jenkins

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.
Bob Woodward

Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.
Blair Underwood

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.
Terri Windling

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
Walter Bagehot

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.
Joseph Wambaugh