Written Quotes

At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity.

But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.

It’s not written in the Constitution or anything else….

There are some different things I’m writing and developing, but I don’t know where they’ll go. They’re fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.

We’ve never written a song and thought ‘oh it’d be great if in this part this happened in the audience’.

There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.

A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don’t know where they get it from, sometimes.

I don’t just want my books to be about the ’30s and ’40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as ’40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.