I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
Carl Sandburg

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
W. Somerset Maugham

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
W. Somerset Maugham

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
Antonin Artaud

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler

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

None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings.
Ric Flair

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

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
Jackson Browne

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

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
Jackson Browne

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
Jimmy Breslin

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

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

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
Shirley MacLaine

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
Marilyn Hacker

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide