I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
Dana Carvey

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
George Sand

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.
Nicholas Sparks

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

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Nicolaus Copernicus

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
Nora Roberts

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, "If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles."
Ray Charles

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.
Alicia Keys

Don't get it right, just get it written.
James Thurber

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.
Lynn Abbey

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.
Lynn Abbey

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
Lynn Abbey

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
Lynn Abbey

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
Jorge Luis Borges

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
Stanley Kubrick

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen