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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
Anthony Trollope

I would rather have bad things written about me than be forgotten.
Pamela Harriman

There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do.
Shawn Wayans

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
Robert Morgan

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
Chuck Mangione

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.
Robert Morgan

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.
Yitzhak Rabin

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
Manuel Puig

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
Theodore Bikel

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
Manuel Puig