(262 quotes found)
“I wrote some three hundred pages, threw most of them out, and started over. The novel seemed to require a maturity and breadth of vision I didn't yet have. What I discovered was that this maturity and vision accrues gradually over the course of many days, months, years of struggling to be a better writer.”
John Dalton
“Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll,Who wrote like an angel, and talk’d like poor Poll.”
David Garrick
“The rocks of the original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of quartz, granite, shale, slate and talcose.”
Antoine Lavoisier
“Ah, yes! I wrote the 'Purple Cow' I'm sorry, now, I wrote it!But I can tell you anyhow,I'll kill you if you quote it!”
Frank Gelett Burgess
“We're going to play the song that we wrote for him. It's about Jared and the life he lived. We played it at his funeral. We played it at his burial.”
Cory Moore
“However, when examined by an experienced virus analyst the similarities become clear. It appears that whoever wrote Zotob had access to the Mytob source code, ripped out the email-spreading section, and plugged in the Microsoft exploit.”
Graham Cluley
“And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.”
Bible
“And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.”
“Anyway, here's the "good parts" version. S. Morgenstern wrote it. And my father read it to me. And now I give it to you. What you do with it will be of more than passing interest to us all.”
William Goldman
“We'd obviously realized at this stage that if we wrote something in a show that got repeated, then we would get another fee for it without having to do any extra work. Now that looked like a good idea, and as the BBC didn't pay us very much in the first place- the ingrates-it was almost essential to have the thing repeated.”
Graham Chapman
