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

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 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

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.
Jim Harrison

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.
Chevy Chase

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

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

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
Pablo Casals

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.
Sandra Cisneros

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
Stephen Sondheim

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.
Stephen Sondheim

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Stephen Sondheim

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

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

A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written.
Edwin Louis Cole

Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.
Studs Terkel

Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.
Siobhan Fahey

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

Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.
Seth MacFarlane