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

I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.
Adolf Galland

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
Marguerite Young

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
Jules Renard

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
Lascelles Abercrombie

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
Seamus Heaney

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.
Andrzej Wajda

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
Bo Bennett

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
Andrzej Wajda

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
Bono

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.
Mick Taylor

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
V. S. Naipaul

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

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Andre Gide

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Charles Caleb Colton

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

I've never written a book before.
Keith Emerson

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.
Jimmy Carl Black

It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.
John Paul Stevens