(428 quotes found)
“Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?”
Virginia Woolf
“I'm in search of how to take the stuff I've written and make sure the audience hears it fresh again. It's been a lot of fun. I've enjoyed it.”
Bruce Springsteen
“I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.”
Ben Hecht
“I always heard it musically, and I guess it's written rhythmically as well,”
Nick Cave
“Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.”
Stephen Leacock
“Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day”
Chamfort
“What man has written, man may read, But God fills every root and seed, With cryptic words, to strangely set For mortal to decipher yet”
Charles Dalmon
“A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.”
Jack Vance
“I always heard it musically, and I guess it's written rhythmically as well ... It's very similar to the way my band operates. There are moments of intense violence and there are also moments of long, lyrical, quiet sadness.”
“And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? / Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.”
Bible
