Written Work Quotes

You know, my problem with most screenwriting is it is a blueprint. It's like they're afraid to write the damn thing. And I'm a writer. That's what I do. I want it to be written. I want it to work on the page first and foremost. So when I'm writing the script, I'm not thinking about the viewer watching the movie. I'm thinking about the reader reading the script.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.

I don't know if I've ever written a song that wasn't on assignment.

I have a novel out, 'Lupus Rex,' that I wrote and am excited about that.

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

In a weak moment, I have written a book.

For the general good of the world [written work] should be understood as … belonging to the publick.

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

You're writing it is how you feel. And when you're finished you put your signature on it and you mail it off and that's it. And that's how "Stand By Me" was really.

I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

Sarah Palin's book is big, 400 pages. She wrote the book herself and agonized over every word, and so will you.

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

I write in Urdu and everything is written by my hand.

I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

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

My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.

My writing did turn out to be quite intact, as it has all my experiences gathered at one place.

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.

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

That complete statement which is literature.

I've probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.