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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time. — Zadie Smith

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

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one. — Tom Wolfe

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

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again. — Chris Prentiss

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. — Joseph Joubert

I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one. — Chris Bohjalian

I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern. — P.D. James

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

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. — Woodrow Wilson

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together. — P. J. Soles

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

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? — Jay-Z

And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote. — Amy Winehouse

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

I wrote 'I'm Me' because I was asked to write a children's book. — Sara Sheridan

I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website. — Andy Weir

Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend. — Edward Dahlberg

Writer for Conan, wrote a character for me called Andy's Little Sister. Her name was Stacey and she wore headgear and was obsessed with Conan. — Amy Poehler

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

I was worried that, as a college teacher, if I wrote too much about intergenerational sex my students would be creeped out. — Dan Chaon

Once
God wrote a story
that shook the heaven to the very core.
Love was the only language used;
You and I
were the only characters. — Subhan Zein

I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies. — Kate Christensen

Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better. — Adam McKay

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it sooner. — Sam Horn

I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper. — Geoff Thompson

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me. — Jonathan King

I have writer friends who go to the premiere of a film with their name listed as the writer, but they are shocked: 'That's not what I wrote!' — Graham Moore

I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book. — Greg Behrendt

I learned a lot from this book, because I wrote it myself. My rating may be somewhat biased as a result. — Peter V. Brett

Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one. — Method Man

He got drunk as usual, but instead of drifting to sleep, he stayed up, and at a white heat, wrote what had been sitting on his heart for decades. — Lauren Groff

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be. — Jami Attenberg

Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence. — Ross Macdonald

[Bram Stoker] wrote in his diary: Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy. — Edmund Morris

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. — Mark Twain

The first song I wrote was called 'You,' and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. — Courtney Barnett

My brother-in-law wrote an unusual murder story. The victim got killed by a man from another book. — Robert Sylvester

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too. — Mary Oliver

I got my equity card, found my agent, and then I got a part on 'Gilmore Girls.' That turned into a job that kept giving - they wrote more for me. — Todd Lowe

It was "a shape to make men weep," wrote Firdred of Bain when he first saw it: "exactly the shape of a desecrated sea. — Sofia Samatar

When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things. — Jill Scott

I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war. — John Edward Christopher Hill

I wrote a song called 'Green Day' because I was smoking a lot of dope. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it. — David Eddings

I remember the first script I wrote after 'Swingers' was a Western, and I just couldn't get it made. — Jon Favreau

Dad, I wrote. I'm with Alice. Edward's in trouble. You can ground me when I get back. I know it's a bad time. So sorry. Love you so much. Bella. — Stephenie Meyer

A woman never wrote, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." God wrote that. You sin first and foremost against God. — Johnny Hunt

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time. — Neil Young

Some of us got our reputations because we wrote good books or had clever publicists. He got his reputation through sheer hard work. — James A. Owen

Every book, every volume that you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time. — Daniel Handler

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25. — Jess Walter

The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos. — David Byrne

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing. — Mike Tyson

You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker. — Bruce Johnston

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

We don't actually know if the person who wrote the Gospel of John had a written copy of Thomas because we don't know exactly when it was written. — Elaine Pagels

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it. — Lukas Foss

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century. — William Gibson

I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal. — Sue Miller

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

I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it. — Estelle Fanta Swaray

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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