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Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. — E. M. Forster

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. — Mae West

Put simply, Hurston wrote well when she was comfortable, wrote poorly when she was not. — Zora Neale Hurston

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home. — Cynthia Weil

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future. — Yoko Ono

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels. — David Rockefeller

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that. — Cherry Jones

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life. — Charles Stuart Calverley

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it. — Edward Hirsch

What Patriot wrote that shit? — Allen Ginsberg

In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth. — Marianne Williamson

People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid. — Neil Patrick Harris

Is it good? It ain't Shakespeare, but then, Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus, so you tell me. — John Scalzi

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote. — Mary Wortley Montagu

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
— Carlos Fuentes

Pushkin wrote Turkish poems and he was never in Turkey. — Ilya Ilf

Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary. — John Hawley

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan. — Noah Hawley

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. — Dean Koontz

There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist. — Nile Rodgers

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers. — Ernest Hemingway,

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation. — Karan Bajaj

The Bible says, 'If any would not work, neither should he eat.' Saint Paul wrote that, in Second Thessalonians, chapter three, verse ten, — Ken Follett

I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own. — Dito Montiel

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages. — Ruskin Bond

I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper. — Mitch Hedberg

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play. — Zoe Kazan

Woke the next day and found her note. Love ya, goodbye, that's all she wrote. — David Gates

As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them. — Lana Del Rey

I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class. — Cory Booker

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules? — Robert J. Sawyer

Nothing could be worse, Thoreau wrote, than to come to the end of life and "discover that I had not lived. — Dale Salwak

He wrote a novel, The Moon Is Down, for a precursor to the CIA, — John Steinbeck

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30. — Rian Johnson

I like them all ... They're all pictures of me when I wrote them ... I have no favorite songs. — Paul Simon

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories. — John Sayles

My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19. — Dan Hill

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner . — Charles Stross

In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels. — George Stephen

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Dear ollever; yor ol twinkk has dun gode up the rivver. im gladd. yor friend jody. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that I was thrown out of graduate school. — James Altucher

I wish I didn't have a heart that God wrote Sad on. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

When I'm directing, I can look at something that I wrote and say, "This doesn't make sense." There's a lot more intuition and gut involved. — Craig Zobel

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life. — Henry A. Kissinger

He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say. — Sebastian Faulks

If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud. — Peter Ackroyd

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind. — John Adams

I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it. — Ken Follett

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!' — Mikhail Tal

I think people have found it very interesting that those that enforce ObamaCare, those that wrote Obamacare, are not a part of ObamaCare. — Marsha Blackburn

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. — Alan Paton

I perfectly agree with you, sir,' was then his remark. 'You did behave very shamefully. You never wrote a truer line. — Jane Austen

Biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier. — Erica Jong

I might have remembered what my father once wrote to Henry George, I never do anything by halves, and am half hearted in no cause that I embrace. — Cecil B. DeMille

You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it. — Geraldine Solon

Jeff got an idea that might work. What if he wrote an illustrated journal from the point of view of a middle-school kid? — Patrick Kinney

Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply. — Patrick Kavanagh

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue. — David Bowie

My first boyfriend that I ever had, actually sang a song that he wrote for me on-stage to ask me out. That was pretty romantic. — Aubrey Plaza

No plague spreads quicker than panic, Stolicus wrote, nor is more deadly. The — Joe Abercrombie

I didn't write to be famous; I wrote to keep a record. — Gloria Emerson

Domenico Scarlatti wrote 555 piano sonatas during his lifetime, most of them when he was between the ages of fifty-seven and sixty-two.) — Haruki Murakami

As G. K. Chesterton wrote, "How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it."22 — Ann Voskamp

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. — Pat Conroy

I'm convinced that Bach is the greatest genius who ever walked among us, and the Brandenburgs are what he wrote when he was happy. — Douglas Adams

Uncle is gone, she wrote instead of all this. And somehow, in some way, I envy him. — Victoria Aveyard

Second-century Christian thinker Athenagoras wrote, Our life does not consist in making up beautiful phrases but in performing beautiful deeds. — Shane Claiborne

My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men. — Denene Millner

Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that's me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hills. — Pat Conroy

The sky," he wrote on his slate, "is my living room. The woods are my parlor. The lonely lake is my bath. I can't remain behind a fence all my life. — E.B. White

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. — Toni Morrison

I always sang and I always wrote ... it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams. — Mariah Carey

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old. — Dinaw Mengestu

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed. — Edward Abbey

Ibn El-Arabi wrote, 'The Teacher is he who hears you, then unveils you to yourself — Idries Shah

I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year. — John Flansburgh

A newspaper man wrote an article that I had 300 million dollars, well, I wish I had a million dollars — Meyer Lansky

Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe. — Ruta Sepetys

I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable. — Arthur Rimbaud

As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer. — James Hilton

I want to hold my life up alongside hers in order to, as she wrote, reach a point where i begin to see me-and her-in a more understandable light. — Diane Keaton

And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties. — James Stockdale

I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it. — James Howe

I am a traveler," he wrote, "going somewhere and to some destination...only the somewhere and the destination do not exist — Steven Naifeh

I wrote my first play when I was eight. — Pam Gems

Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first. — Rob Zombie

I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang. — Gavin Rossdale

He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read. — Pyotr Kropotkin

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison. — Jeffrey Archer

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist. — Kiesza

And so you worried about not remembering what happened in between the things you wrote down. You had lived those moments too. Where had they gone? — Edouard Leve

I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong. — Alanis Morissette

I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out - by doing it. — John McPhee

I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going largely on his reputation. — Jean Webster

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes. — Neil Innes

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote. — Stanley Tucci

Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics. — Jerry Only