#written

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet. ↗

— Kirby Puckett

#been #closet #everybody #everything #except

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#approach #create #difficult #distance #forms

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#arranger #because #becomes #chart #create

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#creating #drummers #everything #exactly #hundred

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written. ↗

— James Rollins

#bit #delving #entire #fact #figure

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written. ↗

— Ted Shawn

#better #communicates #dance #deepest #emotions

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on. ↗

— Sam Goldwyn

#paper #verbal #worth #written

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#before #danger #had #him #i

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#author #become #books #could #down

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#i #live #probably #shall #ten