All Quotes

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
‐‐ Alexei Sayle

I wanted to write about Jews in Montana, so I went there by plane and bus, only to discover that there are no Jews in Montana. It didn't deter me.
‐‐ Kevin Barry

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
‐‐ John Berger

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

I wanted to write about racism and xenophobia in 21st Century England and Ireland, but I wanted to do it in an exciting way so that I could reach more readers. Zombies seemed like a good way to do that.
‐‐ Darren Shan

I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way. Studying psychology helped me out in terms of my understanding. I still look through my old textbooks when I'm in need of inspiration.
‐‐ Natasha Bedingfield

I wanted to write about relationships in a more honest, raw sort of way. Get away from all those cliches about how 'time heals' and how you can be the better person. Less sugar-coating and more 'feel the pain.'
‐‐ Tove Lo

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.
‐‐ Jesmyn Ward

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.
‐‐ Chang-Rae Lee

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

I wanted to write about the things that I love.
‐‐ Octavia Spencer

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.
‐‐ Thomas Keller

I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.
‐‐ Jennifer Chiaverini

I wanted to write an adventure in the old-fashioned way, something to which I could apply the adjective 'rollicking' and not feel embarrassed. But I've never liked my heroes to be too heroic, so they ended up being a bunch of criminals instead.
‐‐ Chris Wooding

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.
‐‐ Ross MacDonald

I wanted to write at school - to write funny stories which the teacher might ask me to read out to the class. It's all basically about showing off.
‐‐ Mark Billingham

I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.
‐‐ Ursula Dubosarsky

I wanted to write for Broadway.
‐‐ Cynthia Weil

I wanted to write in film or something like that. I thought acting was an embarrassing thing to say you wanted to do, especially when you're young. It seemed really uncool.
‐‐ Max Minghella

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.
‐‐ Jacqueline Susann

I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.
‐‐ Richard Rodney Bennett

I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write.
‐‐ David Duchovny

I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.
‐‐ Paul Engle

I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.
‐‐ Nick Frost

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.
‐‐ Adam Rich

I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.
‐‐ Meg Tilly

I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone who's busy and has too many children, like my mother.
‐‐ Sandra Cisneros

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.
‐‐ Brian Jacques

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.
‐‐ George Thorogood

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
‐‐ K. D. Lang

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.
‐‐ Joanna Newsom

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.
‐‐ Amy Tan

I wanted to write stories I wanted to read, that I and my friends related to.
‐‐ Jane Green

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to.
‐‐ Tracy K. Smith

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.
‐‐ Judy Blume

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.
‐‐ Vanessa Diffenbaugh

I wanted total control and leadership. I wanted to buy the horses and choose the players.
‐‐ Adolfo Cambiaso

I wanted very badly to be a mum. I'm a very maternal person. But at the point that I met Emilio I was focusing on a career. I never would have thought that I would get married at 21 and much less be a mum by 23.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan

I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
‐‐ Barry Hannah

I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.
‐‐ Kevin Costner

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.
‐‐ James Lipton

I warm up. I do about 50 push-ups with my trainer and my security just to get pumped up before a show, get our energy up. And then I just go have fun.
‐‐ Joe Jonas

I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
‐‐ Jackie Evancho

I warn you, I'm a terrible housekeeper.
‐‐ Grace Lee Boggs

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.
‐‐ Neil Kinnock