I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on the actors. You can't wash away your life's history, which is written on your face, unless you get a facelift.
And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.
The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
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.
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.
I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.
There is no story unless you've written it.
I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.
The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.
In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.
All our souls are written in our eyes.
In the middle '50s, I had written that the point would come, inevitably, at which the relationship between the cause of conflict and political objectives would be lost.
It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.
Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.
I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.
In my kind of reporting work, you don't parachute in after some big, terrible event, which is important and has to be covered, but offers only a glimpse. It's the kind of work in which you ask, what is my understanding of how the world works, and where can I go to see these questions get worked out in individuals' lives? That was really the question for me: whether I had anything to add to what had already been written.