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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written, that's all. — Walter Moers

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance. — Cynthia Ozick

We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth. — Keri Hilson

Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script. — Johnny Rich

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness. — Kate DiCamillo

An apology, said while in dull pain, made me feel as close to human as it was possible to feel. I could have almost written a poem. — Matt Haig

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart. — Leo Tolstoy

...for all art is one, as Kipling has written, and your art chooses you, not you the art. — Michael Powell

Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses. — Winston Churchill

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

Live each day, as if it we're your last. It's written in the stars, your destiny is cast. — Elvis Presley

as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century — Oscar Wilde

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part. — Leonardo Da Vinci

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

His father said nothing. Instead, he looked straight at Tengo as if he were reading a bulletin written in a foreign language.
1Q84, Murakami — Haruki Murakami

Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it. — Charles Spurgeon

Unhappiness cannot but draw tighter the bonds which hold us fast to one another, General Dumas had written to Marie-Louise as he made his way home. — Tom Reiss

She stores so many of his words in her head that she feels as if she has become nothing more than a book he has written. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism. — Nora Ephron

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law. — Brock Yates

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

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

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States. — Adam Hochschild

I don't think anything you've written is immortal as yet. — Terence Young

My own 'sentimental favorite' is always the novel I haven't yet written - I suppose that's the one I consider my 'masterpiece' as well. — Alice McDermott

Conservatory training is so much. There's so much emphasis on playing perfectly in tune and being perfect and doing everything as it's written. — Lucia Micarelli

I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy. — Bruce Barton

I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you want it to be. — Hal Hartley

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier. — Robert Smith

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers. — Charles Dickens

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television. — Vince Gilligan

As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it. — Demetri Martin

He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute. — Alan Jackson

In my free time, I'd written 'Sammy's Hill' - it had started out as a play. I just did it for myself. — Kristin Gore

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Because I-I'm someone who wants to kiss you. Be with you. Eli says as if it is obvious, as if I know what is written on his heart. — Elizabeth Scott

229. I am writing all this down in blue ink, so as to remember that all words, not just some, are written in water. — Maggie Nelson

Remember all men would be tyrants if they could - from a poem by Daniel Defoe, as written by Abigail to John Adams — David McCullough

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

History is written not only by posterity, but for posterity as well. — Stacy Schiff

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots. — Kate Zambreno

I love what Joe Eszterhas written about Bill Clinton. It's hilarious, Clinton as a rock star, which is the way we should remember him. — Chris Matthews

I had written about a small hamlet upstate, and had been called into a meeting about my story, which, as it turned out, had upset a lot of people. — Tom Barbash

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. — Henry David Thoreau

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind. — Buster Keaton

Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written. — Tom Butler-Bowdon

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful' - much more. — Bjarne Stroustrup

I've always said the world is filled with as much wonder as sorrow. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

17For in it h the righteousness of God is revealed i from faith for faith, [5] j as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith." [6] — Anonymous

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority. — Ernestine Rose

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. — Rumer Godden

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class. — Richard Russo

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along. — Harry Stack Sullivan

The goal is equality, as it is written: "The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little."16 — Anonymous

I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'. — Val McDermid

Most magick I have experienced can be written off as a stew of psychology and coincidence, and I truly believe this is where magick is best worked. — Thomm Quackenbush

As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will ever change it. — Ronee Blakley

Imagine a sentence as a hall with a series of doors. Each door is a possible way to use what you've already written to generate new material. — Kim Addonizio

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet. — Philip Levine

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent. — James Lipton

Novels are written - as life is lived - One Day At A Time. — Lawrence Block

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. — Carl Sagan

There are no victims, now. While we survive, for as long as we love, our future is yet to be written. — Janny Wurts

There is nothing in anything that I have ever written that could be reasonably construed as an incitement to violence against anyone. — Robert Spencer

All these things Alanna knew from her father's books and maps, but the reality took her breath away as a paragraph written in a book never could. — Tamora Pierce

Writing is like breathing. Each written word is like exhaling and each pause is like inhaling as the next thought speedily arrives. — Lynn M. Dixon

Saying Dating web sites don't work
is like saying my keyboard types wrong
as it is written seek and yee shall find — Stanley Victor Paskavich

The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful. — Kathleen Turner

All music written by a Christian should be as integrated as everything else done by a Christian. — Larry Norman

Close counts in handguns as well, in my book," Remy argued.
"Your book is written in purple crayon. No one cares. — Abigail Roux

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

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

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

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

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

Everyone wanted to create his own history. There was nothing as powerful as the written word; history had taught them all that much. — Ted Dekker

As gay young people, we are marginalized. As young people who are HIV-positive and have AIDS, we are totally written off. — Pedro Zamora

I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed. — William Monahan

Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older. — Kim Cattrall

History is, as we know, written by the winners. — Rachel Martin

I've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person. — Erik Rutan

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them. — Helen Vendler

The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten. — Teju Cole

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth. — David Levithan

We are reading the story of our lives
As though we were in it
As though we had written it. — Mark Strand

People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way. — Aidan Gillen

There is nothing quite so beautiful as the written word -worn as a jewel, adorning the segmented lines of papyrus". — Gerald Mills

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. — Sydney Smith

I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true. — Dorothy Parker

Just as the Bible is God's written Word, so Jesus is God's living Word. — Billy Graham

Samuel Beckett's estate will not license productions of his plays that are not performed as written. — Terry Teachout

Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death. — Harold Brodkey

History is replete with blunders written by sycophants. — Tomichan Matheikal

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him. — Emma Donoghue

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive. — Joichi Ito