Written Quotes - Page 16

• It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.

  John Paul Stevens

  Jobs, Law

  "Retiring justice an 'unexpected liberal,' negotiator". CNN Wire Staff, www.cnn.com. April 9, 2010.

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• There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

  Katey Sagal

  Motorcycle, Culture

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• Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Being Positive, Dialect

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• Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and he pays for it by loss of organic dash.

  Raymond Chandler

  Eye, Writing, Loss

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

  Maj Sjowall

  Book, Views, People

  "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

  R. L. Stine

  Book, Years, Adults

  "R.L. Stine Talks New Book, 'Red Rain'". Interview with Jackie Nash, www.biography.com. October 10, 2012.

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• It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

  Laini Taylor

  Book, Finishing It, Worry

  "Free-writing, travels led Laini Taylor to `Daughter of Smoke and Bone'". Interview with Maya Lubarsky, articles.sun-sentinel.com. November 21, 2012.

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• I think the best songs are being written by the very under-stated, under-appreciated indie artists. The thing that separates them from mainstream success is they either consciously or unknowingly refuse to deliver on a big chorus.

  Ryan Tedder

  Song, Thinking, Artist

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• I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Screenplays

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• The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.

  Margaret Whiting

  Musician, Looks, Way

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• Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

  Sela Ward

  Publicists, Presses

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• Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

  Julianna Margulies

  Roles, Television, World

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything that I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.

  Stephen King

  Book, Writing, Dark

  Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

  Patrice Leconte

  Rooms, Film, Wells

  "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.

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• It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Years, Long, Perfection

  "Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Winner, Dies at 103" by Benedict Carey, www.nytimes.com. December 30, 2012.

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• Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

  Taylor Lautner

  Crazy, Believe, Trying

  "Taylor Lautner Interview THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. November 7, 2009.

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• I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.

  Joe Mantello

  Thinking, Directors, Prejudice

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• I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.

  Robin McKinley

  Children, Stories, Differentiation

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• I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

  Chuck Mangione

  Song, Keys, Play

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• There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.

  Denise Mina

  Children, Book, Reading

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• As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.

  Henning Mankell

  Hate, Lying, Believe

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• Have I ever written anything that has really changed something? What I believe is that you can't change anything without using art. I believe that the drops wear away the stone. I try to be part of that army.

  Henning Mankell

  Art, Believe, Army

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• 'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.

  Chris Weitz

  Fantasy Novels, Ideas, Ironic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

  Randy Wayne White

  Anchors, Three, Four

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• I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.

  Raymond Cruz

  Facts, Translate, Performances

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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