If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!
I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together,. . . They had no idea that I had written it, or who I was. I was just some weird guy who wanted to join in on the singing.
One of the high points in my career came from a time I had with Tim Conway on a film when I had him fall down with laughter. I had this scene with him where I was this mechanic down fixing his car. I can't remember what my line was as written, but they were okay with me doing a made-up line. So Tim asks me what's wrong with his car, and I look up and say, "Well, looks like you got a squirrel caught up in there. "
Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
I never felt like a happy-go-lucky ingenue to begin with. And parts are written better when you're older. When you're young, you're written to be an ingenue, and you're written to be a quality. You're actually not written to be a person, you're written for your youth to inspire someone else, usually a man. So I find it just much more liberating.
I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.
So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.
Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.
My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.
Mostly things that have happened to me, feelings that I've had, but on a couple of occasions I've written about things that have happened to other people.
Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there. . . if you had but skill to read.
Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.
Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport, an unfair sport. If you're in Spain or Mexico it's absolutely not a sport; it's not thought of as a sport and it's not written about as a sport. It has elements of public spectacle, but then so does, for example, the Super Bowl. It has elements of a deeply entrenched, deeply conservative tradition, a tradition that resists change, as you pointed out.
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!
Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
I'm always writing a new book even when books are being shopped around, and none of my books has been published in the order that they have been written.
If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.
Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then edited, then rewritten, then given to kings for them to take their favorite parts, then rewritten, then re-rewritten, then translated again, then given to the pope for him to approve, then rewritten, then edited again, the re-re-re-re-rewritten again. . . all based on stories that were told orally 30 to 90 years AFTER they happened. . to people who didnt know how to write. . . so. . .