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And at the end of his letter one terrible sentence.
'If I loved you I would have written differently. — Alice Munro

Love and memory and thought and dream ~
My favorite poems have never been written in words. — Kij Johnson

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. — Brooks Atkinson

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person. — Lois Lowry

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television. — Roone Arledge

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation. — Taylor Caldwell

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink — Vikram Seth

Beads of blood defied gravity, hanging in the air like drops of dew caught in a web. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant. — John Lydon

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader — Victor Levin

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room. — James Sanborn

I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it. — Anita Shreve

I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it. — Lewis Carroll

The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life. — Pope Benedict XVI

I always feel that the best roles are written for white guys. — Marlon Wayans

I only said I would stop talking to you, he'd written. I never promised to stop loving you. — Courtney Milan

This was something that happened in bad horror movies, and books written by people from Maine. — Chris Philbrook

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it. — Geezer Butler

I rise near dawn, make a strong cup of coffee, wander to my desk and come fully awake by reading something written the day before. — Daniel Woodrell

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. — Stephen Spender

Anything said is gone as soon as it leaves my lips. Things written down at least have a chance to leave a soft echo of what had been. — Chris Dietzel

I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen. — Thomas Carlyle

As John Maxwell has written, "You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything."9 — Greg McKeown

And there's nothing more dangerous than a written memoir. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A good story is always written with the tears of tragedies and triumphs, and the love and kindness of our lives. — Debasish Mridha

If it is not written down, it does not exist. — Philippe Kruchten

I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually. — Julie Delpy

Dreams are the poetry of life to be written with love and actions. — Debasish Mridha

Love is a song, written in your heart.
The moon is a poem in a starry night. — Debasish Mridha

Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first. — Rob Zombie

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Once something is well-written, then everything else is gravy. — Billy Campbell

She didn't leave any written instructions. She has verbally expressed her wishes to me and other people. — Michael Schiavo

Our lives, and sometimes deaths, are stories written in bone. — Simon Beckett

Poorly written books are a kin to actors forgetting their lines. — Peggy Randall-Martin

A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it. — Hilary Mantel

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes. — John Travolta

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked. — Nicholas Jarecki

A plan that is not written is just an idea. — Dwain Siady

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will. — Curt Schilling

I think I have written the things I was put on Earth to write. — Michel Faber

I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized. — Charlie Kaufman

I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while. — Becky Watson

People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.
[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton] — Don Draper From 'Mad Men'

Much has been written about the loyalty of dogs, but what I love about them isn't their devotion to me so much as their devotion to being alive. — Steven Bauer

Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that. — Margaret Atwood

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time. — Sara Sheridan

I have a folder where I keep all the articles the critics have written about me. It makes me feel good. — Norman Wisdom

'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written. — Patrick Fischler

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck. — J. Michael Straczynski

The comparison is perhaps a little bit unfair because a sonnet written by a machine will be better appreciated by another machine. — Walter Isaacson

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires. — Roddy Doyle

The thinker as reader reads what has been written.
He wears the words he reads to look upon
Within his being ... — Wallace Stevens

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper. — Beth Nielsen Chapman

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down. — Sue Townsend

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

Poetry of the universe is written with flowers and the lights of love on a canvas we call earth. — Debasish Mridha

What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee? — George Steiner

Change is neither good or bad; it simply is.
[Written by Matthew Weiner] — Don Draper 'Mad Men'

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them. — Roger McGuinn

I've written a bunch of stuff that no one's ever heard, and I don't know if they ever will. I'm just doing it for my own edification. — Billy Joel

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written. — George Orwell

The Word of God we read is written not so much with ink as with the blood of the Son of God; or — John Calvin

'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room. — Richard Marx

Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul. — Marc Chagall

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. — Giacomo Casanova

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage. — Marilyn Vos Savant

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. — Dorothy Parker

Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction. — Mark Twain

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. — Elena Ferrante

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about. — Amy Winehouse

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. — Thomas Carlyle

Whenever I watch a show and twentysomethings have a lot of 'Star Wars' references, I know it's written by a 40-year-old dude. — Anders Holm

A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief. — Dave Morris

There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story. — Katherine Mansfield

Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you'll ever receive, so open up God's Word and read the most extraordinary book ever written. — J.E.B. Spredemann

It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'. — Idries Shah

I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well. — David Hockney

The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around me. — Nick McDonell

Half my life is in book's written pages.
Live and learn from fools and from sages. — Steven Tyler

She gave a little jump and hung in the air a little way above the rug, then she slowly began to be drawn downwards and dropped .. — Mikhail Bulgakov

The written word is greatest sacred documentation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace. — Vincent Louis Carrella

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone. — Henri Matisse

Code should be written to minimize the time it would take for someone else to understand it. — Dustin Boswell

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them. — Mick Jagger

There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.' — Natalie Dormer

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters. — Sune Rose Wagner

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

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English. — Joe Hill

The Dream Act as it's been written originally is too broad, to be honest. It basically would apply to too many people. — Marco Rubio

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written. — C.S. Lewis

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too. — Nick Hornby

In one book, your father is a hero. In another book, he is a monster. The men who don't have books written about them have it easier. — Jaroslav Kalfar

Every experience is a book to be written. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I felt like Life was a great show. It was really well-written. — Donal Logue

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write. — Ellen Glasgow