#written

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written. ↗

— Amy Ray

#book #down #draw #i #looking

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think. ↗

— Vanessa Redgrave

#change #coded #codes #heading #i

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. ↗

— Cardinal Richelieu

#find #give #give me #hang #him

Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it. ↗

— Mercedes Ruehl

#absolute necessity #also #book #called #come

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#due #explain #here #mystery #once

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#commandments #had #might #moses #newspaper

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.' ↗

— James Wolcott

#author #autumn #brought #contender #dan

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor. ↗

— David Antin

#already #being #experimental #got #i

I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#i #remember #songs #writing #written

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#ever #except #get #hell #invented