All Quotes

I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.
‐‐ Daniel H. Wilson

I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie.
‐‐ Diablo Cody

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me.
‐‐ Tom Berenger

I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.
‐‐ Kat Dennings

I wrote a song with a guy named Brian McKnight, who's a huge R&B guy.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert

I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. It's kind of like a rock ballad. There's a lot of guitars and drums in it.
‐‐ Ashley Tisdale

I wrote a spec script that people really liked: a political serial based on Jeffrey's Toobin's 'A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.' It was the first thing I had ever written with any political subject matter in it.
‐‐ Peter Gould

I wrote a staggeringly bad poem when I was 19 after a girlfriend dumped me. I seem to remember comparing her to a tarantula. It was all very E. J. Thribb of me.
‐‐ Simon Schama

I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the banks of levee, and he's starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he's so desperate, he's seven years old, that he finds a pig that's been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.
‐‐ Susan Straight

I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.
‐‐ Flula Borg

I wrote a techno song after I was deported. I was in America for a little bit, but then I was deported back to Germany. I was very sad.
‐‐ Flula Borg

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.
‐‐ Brian Jacques

I wrote about Alan Turing, the great mathematician and code-breaker. He was an absolutely different person, certainly more brilliant than I ever will be.
‐‐ David Lagercrantz

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.
‐‐ Francine Prose

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.
‐‐ Betty Smith

I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They were just about normal people who had something bizarre happening to them in the neighborhood.
‐‐ Richard Matheson

I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.
‐‐ St. Vincent

I wrote 'Ain't It Cool? Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out,' because in doing hundreds and hundreds of interviews over the past six and a half years, I was tired of the story being half told or a third told or erroneously told.
‐‐ Harry Knowles

I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.
‐‐ Kenneth Oppel

I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
‐‐ Rainbow Rowell

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.
‐‐ J. C. Chandor

I wrote all my songs on my main instruments, and the songs I would record in my bedroom were just acoustic guitar, mandolin, and sometimes bass. I really like the texture the mandolin added to my music, but my fingers were too big to play it... I could only do little riffs and whatever.
‐‐ Shamir

I wrote all the lyrics on 'Good Vibrations' and most of them in 'Kokomo.' 'Kokomo' was extremely popular and fun to sing - it's probably one of the bigger sing-along songs in our show. But then 'Help Me Rhonda,' 'Surfin' USA' and 'California Girls' and 'I Get Around' and 'Fun, Fun, Fun' are great songs as well.
‐‐ Mike Love

I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.
‐‐ Mike Greenberg

I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything.
‐‐ Jerry Seinfeld

I wrote an editorial piece in 'Science' about the nightly data release and how I thought it was bad for science as a field, I think a few years before Celera was formed.
‐‐ Craig Venter

I wrote an episode for 'thirtysomething,' and a producer said, 'That's really good, but what is it about? What does it say about you? What questions are you asking yourself?' I had never thought about that. This comment changed who I was, because it made me look at my own soul, the dark corners in my soul, and accept that dark side.
‐‐ Paul Haggis

I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.'
‐‐ Maurice Flanagan

I wrote and directed a movie called 'Two-Bit Waltz.'
‐‐ Clara Mamet

I wrote and directed a movie called 'Two - Bit Waltz'. We just wrapped. It was a blast, blast, blast.
‐‐ Clara Mamet

I wrote and drew my own books on notebook paper, and I'd staple 'em together. I had my own fictional company, and we had our own thinly veiled offshoots of whatever was popular at Marvel and DC at the time.
‐‐ Jason Aaron

I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.
‐‐ Ziad Doueiri

I wrote and illustrated a science experiment book called 'The Mad Professor'.
‐‐ Mark Frauenfelder

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.
‐‐ Rick James

I wrote 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' right out of my own experiences and my own feelings when I was in sixth grade.
‐‐ Judy Blume

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
‐‐ Gail Carson Levine

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 'Bamboozled' to expose and uncover the lies liberals have used for generations to exploit minorities for the vote.
‐‐ Angela McGlowan

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
‐‐ Danielle Steel

I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be a better behaved girl, I shut the book.
‐‐ Beverly Cleary

I wrote comedy sketches in college.
‐‐ Ellie Kemper

I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
‐‐ Fiona Apple

I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom in that - no expectations or anything like that. It was also my first contemporary novel I'd written and sold, which was to Disney/Hyperion in January of 2012.
‐‐ Jennifer Armentrout

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

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
‐‐ Alistair Maclean

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.
‐‐ Caroline B. Cooney

I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.
‐‐ Colm Toibin

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.
‐‐ Patti Smith

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
‐‐ Taiye Selasi