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"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written." »Oscar Wilde
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"If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old." »James Abram Garfield
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"Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language." »Johnson
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"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects." »Albert Einstein
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"There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself." »Mark Twain
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"I have an existential map. It has "You are here" written all over it." »Steven Wright
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"I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it." »Steven Wright
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"If ever an error had 'F' written on it, that grounder did." »Jerry Coleman
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"I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true." »Dorothy Parker
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"written words in solitary are medicine." »Sharon Greatwood Callen
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"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice." »Mark Twain
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"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered." »Aristotle
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"Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." »Galileo Galilei
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"A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one." »Thomas Carlyle
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"He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows." »Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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"A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." »Henry Miller
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"Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written." »Yevgeny Zamyatin
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""Just think, if I was born one day earlier I would have written this yesterday."" »Tom Zegan
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"Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written." »Anonymous
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"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure." »Samuel Johnson
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"I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music." »J. S. Bach
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"Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows." »Goethe
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"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"No eyes can read the future, because it is a book not yet written!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide." »Jeff Melvoin
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"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act." »Truman Capote
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"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today." »Herman Wouk
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"The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything." »Walter Bagehot
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"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything." »Walter Bagehot
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