Written Quotes

I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.

If we receive the fiery spirit from which it was written, it ought to change much more than that.

My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

My favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.

I’ve written many love songs for Gerard. But it’s never enough. I feel that he deserves a million love songs written for him.

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature