Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Virginia Woolf

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Virginia Woolf

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
William Faulkner

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
William Faulkner

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.
Louis Farrakhan

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
Jefferson Davis

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.
Elvis Presley

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.
Layne Staley

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
Joyce Brothers

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
Frank Zappa

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
Michael Crichton

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
Alexander Hamilton

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
Babe Ruth

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Maimonides