All Quotes

I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
‐‐ Rachel Platten

I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
‐‐ Eddie Campbell

I wrote for 10 years before I even started the 'Percy Jackson' series.
‐‐ Rick Riordan

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.
‐‐ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I wrote for free for, like, fifteen years; I could redo my parlor in rejection slips. It would be surprisingly tasteful - they use nice paper.
‐‐ MaryJanice Davidson

I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
‐‐ Zane Grey

I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.
‐‐ James Rollins

I wrote four novels under the name Amy Silver. The first one was commissioned, and I was given basically the whole plot and the characters. They told me what to do, and I went straight away and did it. After that, I continued, and I was coming up with more my own ideas, although they did steer me.
‐‐ Paula Hawkins

I wrote ghost stories because I'd always enjoyed reading them, and they seemed to be fizzling out... I don't take them terribly seriously. It's like a cake, with ingredients.
‐‐ Susan Hill

I wrote '#GIRLBOSS' while running a $100 million-plus revenue business.
‐‐ Sophia Amoruso

I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of course I was writing songs back in Oklahoma when I was a kid.
‐‐ Christian Kane

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.
‐‐ Peter Morgan

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

I wrote in coffee shops in Japan when I was 22, 23, before I had the stamina to sit down and write. I liked the buzzy environment; I couldn't speak Japanese when I arrived, so it was kind of a white noise. It felt more sociable than being alone, but now, as I've developed a writing practice, I couldn't do it.
‐‐ Susan Barker

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
‐‐ Kate Adie

I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
‐‐ Edith Pearlman

I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
‐‐ Steven Pressfield

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.
‐‐ Eugene Ormandy

I wrote it three times - with a Thesaurus.
‐‐ Gypsy Rose Lee

I wrote 'Lakeside View Apartment Suites' with Roman in my arms. He was about a month old. I was playing left-handed and finally handed him over. On the demo of it, you can hear him crying in the next room.
‐‐ John Darnielle

I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
‐‐ Damon Galgut

I wrote 'Legends of the Fall' in nine days, but I had been thinking about it for a few years.
‐‐ Jim Harrison

I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I wrote it with 'Biff' Stannard. And he wrote every single Spice Girls song and every single pop song of the 90s, basically. So I thought, you know, I was really lucky to work with him, but I didn't think it would be a big song for some reason.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.
‐‐ Karen Bender

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.
‐‐ Kylie Minogue

I wrote 'Marvels,' which was about a guy who had two daughters, and I wrote 'Astro City Volume 2 #1,' which was about a guy who had two daughters. In both cases, about a year and a half or two years apart. And then after that, I had two daughters, about a year and a half or two years apart.
‐‐ Kurt Busiek

I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.
‐‐ Gene Ween

I wrote 'Mr. In-Between' very quickly when I was about 23. I wrote the penultimate chapter, then realised I'd done something which was written to the best of my abilities. I panicked. I hesitated to finish the final chapter and went into withdrawal for three years. I decided to pick it up again after I went drinking with author Tim Binding.
‐‐ Neil Cross

I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.
‐‐ Val Guest

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
‐‐ Harrison Birtwistle

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 wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in my stand-up, I improvise initially, never questioning it too closely.
‐‐ Robert Klein

I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God's love.
‐‐ Janine Turner

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.
‐‐ Jilly Cooper

I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.
‐‐ Alan Arkin

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.
‐‐ Eric Walters

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
‐‐ John Boyne

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.
‐‐ Caitlin Moran

I wrote my first book in fifth grade. It was about a dog that goes to outer space and is an ambassador for Earth.
‐‐ Josh Malerman

I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
‐‐ Manika

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

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

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.
‐‐ Jennifer Weiner

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.
‐‐ Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first full book when I was fourteen, and that was 'Obernewtyn.' It was also the first book I had published. It was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to, and it was short listed for Children's Book of the Year in the older readers category in Australia.
‐‐ Isobelle Carmody

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.
‐‐ John Green

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