Written Quotes

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

This is the sixth book I’ve written, which isn’t bad for a guy who’s only read two.

You’re a song written by the hands of God.

[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’

I’ve written songs sober and I’ve written songs high.

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the story is very good or illuminating, then that work is translated into the language of another community.

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

This is much more than your typical thriller. Tim Johnston has written a book that makes Gone Girl seem gimmicky . . . Johnston is an excellent writer.

I’ve written poems about gifts.