This collection holds 66 well written quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are William Shatner, Sam Underwood and Thomas Carlyle.

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Well-written words are music.

I like going after good material, well-written material.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.

It's so rare that you actually get to find a really well-written female lead.

I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

A lot of actors, we aren't that special; you get a well-written scene, and it's virtually actor-proof.

What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.

A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivid sense of what's going to be onscreen.

My hope is always to be able to find well-written, interesting material with good people and then actually be able to get those jobs.

A well-written character is one where you don't know in which direction it's going; the character could spring a surprise any moment.

'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written.

I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

I think I would choose to do things because they are interesting, because I like a character or because it's very well-written. Or because it makes sense.

Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.

Any role that is well-written, exciting and something that I am comfortable with interests me whether it's comic or tragic. It could be in a film, play or TV.

Well-written plays deserve to be learned from and understood properly, both by actors and audiences alike, and Rattigan's very human characters help us do that.

I abhor badly-written characters and any character, be it man, woman, any character in the film. If it is a well-written character, it will come across as strong.

I think you have to be in an insane stratosphere in terms of fame in order to get offered really well-written scripts. Amanda Peet is definitely not in that group.

As an actor, I would never agree if a newcomer doesn't give me a final word on the script. If it is well-written, then you need not speak to me. I will speak for you.

For an actor, his job becomes easy, when his character is described well on the paper. With a well-written role, it becomes simpler to design and understand your character.

We still go to nonfiction for content. And if it's well-written, that's a bonus. But we don't often talk about the nonfiction work of art. That's what I'm very interested in.

I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.

I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

When a director from Hindi cinema is looking for an actor from another language, it will be only because he feels the character justifies this and that can only be for a well-written character.

I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.

In my latest 'Mirzapur,' I had no pressure actually to match up the level of other people in terms of performance because all of our characters were well-written. So there was no sense of insecurity.

In TV, I did scripts that were not well-written, and I learned how to make bad material okay. That's a hard thing to do; you can learn bad habits, but you can also learn to find something in anything.

Well-written novels make you more empathetic towards other people. You can identify with someone who isn't you. You can change your identity. A 14-year-old boy can become Anna Karenina. It is a miracle.

You have to have a strong idea for a hit movie, a strong core idea that resonates emotionally. It also has to technically achieve its goal - it's got to be well-written, well-paced, and interestingly told.

And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.

In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.

For a woman, there is a complete dearth of roles to do. Abroad, you really have good roles, and by good roles, I don't mean the film has to be women oriented. I wouldn't mind playing a well-written, small role.

Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we've had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period.

I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.

Women are given their due, and I think female-centric roles are also well-written. But it doesn't matter who is in the centre - a male or female. As long as it is an entertaining, gripping film, people just enjoy it.

My passion lies in amazing, complex characters and really well-written stuff - not to say I wouldn't want to do a comedy if the right comedy came along... I'm an actor in Los Angeles, and I have a family I have to support.

Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.

There's a book called 'You're Not a Stranger Here' by Adam Haslett - short stories, a lot of them are about mental illness and gay people - that classic combination. But they're really well-written, really powerful. It's pretty good.

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