All Quotes

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.
‐‐ Randy Alcorn

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

I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I had no time - and so I became a compulsive outliner of everything. Ever since then, my process has consisted of trying to forcibly rid myself of that compulsion.
‐‐ Jonathan Dee

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.
‐‐ Nick Earls

I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
‐‐ Gayle Forman

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
‐‐ Abel Korzeniowski

I wrote my first piece about the disruption of the Harvard Business School in 1999. Because you could see this coming. I haven't yet done the one about the disruption of the Stanford Business School.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen

I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.
‐‐ T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

I wrote my first play when I was eight.
‐‐ Pam Gems

I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.
‐‐ Michael Connelly

I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same nurse while they're convalescing in a Civil War hospital.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.
‐‐ Ian Rankin

I wrote my first short story in third grade.
‐‐ Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.
‐‐ Hunter Hayes

I wrote my first song, 'Conversion', to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat.
‐‐ Leon Bridges

I wrote my first song when I was 6 years old. It was actually called 'Six Years Old.'
‐‐ Hunter Hayes

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
‐‐ Rachel Platten

I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
‐‐ Kate Christensen

I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my 'cheater's book,' my book about sucios desgraciados. My plan was to write a book about how people deal with love and loss.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy,' and over the years, many students told me that they enjoyed reading it because there were so many stories in there; often just a paragraph or a page of something that happened in a group session.
‐‐ Irvin D. Yalom

I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.
‐‐ Megan Abbott

I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
‐‐ Kate Forsyth

I wrote my own anthem: it's called 'Mariah's Theme.' It's on the 'Rainbow' album from '99. Back in the day.
‐‐ Mariah Carey

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.
‐‐ Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.
‐‐ Brandy Norwood

I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

I wrote my senior essay on the Santa Fe Writer's Colony and my dissertation on sacred landscapes - the Grand Canyon, the Dakota Badlands. As a setting, I love the West. I just love that western landscape.
‐‐ Elise Broach

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.
‐‐ Don Young

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.
‐‐ Bob McDonnell

I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.
‐‐ Daniel Johns

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.
‐‐ Al Gore

I wrote 'Oath' for Cher Lloyd because there were really no best-friend anthems out there. Not only did she love it, she wanted me to rap on it, too!
‐‐ Becky G

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.
‐‐ Seth MacFarlane

I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure that the great news would come at any moment. Four books later, I finally got that call.
‐‐ Deb Caletti

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.
‐‐ Seth Grahame-Smith

I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.
‐‐ Alan Furst

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
‐‐ Carl Sandburg

I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
‐‐ Gabrielle Aplin

I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.
‐‐ Alex Flinn

I wrote poetry off and on in high school, when I could manage to get out of gym classes and sports - using my allergies as an excuse - and climb the hill behind school till I found a nice place to settle down with a notebook and look at Spokane spread out below.
‐‐ Carolyn Kizer

I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan

I wrote probably my phattest banging record with Knife Party: 'Pile Driver.'
‐‐ Steve Aoki

I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

I wrote 'Science For Her!' because I found normal, manly science textbooks to be too intense for my small size-0 brain, and I found normal science textbooks to have covers too heavy for my dainty size-0/size-2-with-bloat hands.
‐‐ Megan Amram

I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
‐‐ Harlan Coben

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
‐‐ Albert Ellis

I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper.
‐‐ Paul Anka

I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all along was to start writing fiction, and I guess one day I'd just had enough.
‐‐ Daniel H. Wilson

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin