#written

I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#being #certain #confusions #disappointments #feel

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law. ↗

— Robert Bork

#before #being #brought #equality #fourteenth

There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I've never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned. ↗

— Nicolette Sheridan

#been #burned #candle #even #first

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#books #case #devil #god #heard

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book. ↗

— John le Carre

#book #few #haven #heaven #i

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. ↗

— Carrie Chapman Catt

#binding #custom #ever #law #more

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#counts #life #much #transparency #work

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean. ↗

— Norton Juster

#had #i #i think #just #know

I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#books #both #each #easy #having

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it. ↗

— Charles W. Colson

#almost #figure #first #impossible #next