All Quotes

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
‐‐ J. A. Jance

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.
‐‐ Linda Sue Park

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.
‐‐ Alan Zweibel

I've been writing for years and developing my own films and editing with a friend of mine in Australia.
‐‐ Aden Young

I've been writing full-time since 1978.
‐‐ Alan Dean Foster

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.
‐‐ Mary Roach

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.
‐‐ Emma Donoghue

I've been writing 'Green Lantern' for a long time, and one of the reasons I've enjoyed it is because the depth of stories you can tell is pretty endless with space and everything.
‐‐ Geoff Johns

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.
‐‐ Frank McCourt

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.
‐‐ Sarah Dessen

I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.
‐‐ Nancy A. Collins

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.
‐‐ Jimmy Carl Black

I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.
‐‐ Maya Rudolph

I've been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I'd fall asleep in my car.
‐‐ Jewel

I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
‐‐ Adam Hicks

I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.
‐‐ Paul Eenhoorn

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.
‐‐ Travis Tritt

I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the rent. I started to watch films with an eye to figuring out how to write them.
‐‐ John Patrick Shanley

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.
‐‐ Kevin Powers

I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter

I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.
‐‐ Karrine Steffans

I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came naturally. I think at that time West Coast hip hop was huge; all these kids around me were like, 'I want to be a rapper.' But I'm a white girl, not going to be a rapper.
‐‐ Sasha Grey

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.
‐‐ Maxine Hong Kingston

I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before I wrote 'The Bone Season' at nineteen.
‐‐ Samantha Shannon

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.
‐‐ Lana Del Rey

I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper.
‐‐ Jerry Spinelli

I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.
‐‐ Dylan Moran

I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.
‐‐ Bernie Leadon

I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.
‐‐ Melora Hardin

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.
‐‐ Rick Springfield

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.
‐‐ Kris Kristofferson

I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
‐‐ Karen Elson

I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.
‐‐ Taylor Momsen

I've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.
‐‐ Cullen Bunn

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.
‐‐ Laurell K. Hamilton

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
‐‐ Randa Abdel-Fattah

I've been wrong on everything about Trump; I've been wrong about everything on the Republican side of the ledger. But allow me - with that caveat - to made the prediction that Donald Trump will not be the president of the United States. It just will not happen.
‐‐ Cory Booker

I've been wrong so often, I don't find it extraordinary at all.
‐‐ Ronald Coase

I've been your yellow M&M for, oh, at least two decades or so, and I've done a lot of other animated stuff in between.
‐‐ J. K. Simmons

I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.
‐‐ Neil Strauss

I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath

I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin

I've belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don't know why.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
‐‐ Abdullah II of Jordan

I've bought clothes based on record covers. Particularly from the formative music that turned me onto it in the first place when I was a kid, with the Beatles and the Small Faces. A lot of those Sixties soul artists were in really sharp sharkskin or mohair suits, and Motown artists looked amazing.
‐‐ Paul Weller

I've bought perfectly healthy horses for a couple of hundred dollars just as they were about to be loaded on a slaughterhouse-bound truck.
‐‐ Jane Velez-Mitchell

I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.
‐‐ Phil Collins