All Quotes

I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
‐‐ Rachel Sklar

I wrote 'Snowy' as a result of spending a week on a narrow boat with daily classes of children, helping them to write about canal life, the work of barges, the simple pleasure of watching the water creatures. There was no doubt that the star of their week was Snowy, the working barge horse who pulled us daily along the towpath.
‐‐ Berlie Doherty

I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music is to actually play it, at least in a way that made the most sense to me.
‐‐ Carrie Brownstein

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
‐‐ Jacques Derrida

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

I wrote something when I was 9 that seemed pretty good for a 9 year old; it concerned flowers in our family garden - I was grateful my mother praised it. Of course, I found out later it was pretty silly, but it was the first poem I was proud of.
‐‐ Brenda Hillman

I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.
‐‐ Thomas Gold

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.
‐‐ Tommy Shaw

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.
‐‐ Billy Sherwood

I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working on a book.
‐‐ Jostein Gaarder

I wrote 'Soul Keeping' because we are taught more about how to care for our cars than how to steward our souls. But you cannot have an impactful life with an impoverished soul.
‐‐ John Ortberg

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.
‐‐ Fred Saberhagen

I wrote Steve Carell's last episode. I think it was a really good episode, but there's always a tension between what's good for the series and what's good for an episode, because the more closure you put on an episode, the more significant feeling it is.
‐‐ Greg Daniels

I wrote stories as a kid just for myself. One day, some of the kids in my class found some of my stories in my bag, and I was deeply embarrassed until I realised they enjoyed reading them.
‐‐ Morris Gleitzman

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance.
‐‐ Joan Didion

I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book.
‐‐ Don Novello

I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.
‐‐ Helen Thomas

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.
‐‐ John Fogerty

I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.
‐‐ Jacqueline Novogratz

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?
‐‐ Goldie Hawn

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.
‐‐ Steven Cojocaru

I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized.
‐‐ Tom Glazer

I wrote the chorus specifically for 'Same Love' as a narration of my story. I decided to release 'She Keeps Me Warm' as an extension of the chorus because I felt like there was more that needed to be said.
‐‐ Mary Lambert

I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.
‐‐ Clara Shih

I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.
‐‐ Poul Anderson

I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek.
‐‐ Lydia Davis

I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.
‐‐ Jesmyn Ward

I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was relaxed and casual about her well-being during this tender time - and the novel clearly has its center in that panicked parental desperation that accompanies a first child and in the admittedly comedic extremes to which it drives us.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
‐‐ J. Milton Hayes

I wrote 'The Hunger Games' in a chair, like a La-Z-Boy chair, next to my bed. I had an office, but my kids sort of took it over.
‐‐ Suzanne Collins

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.
‐‐ Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Match,' my cricket novel, between 2002 and 2005. In retrospect, almost an age of innocence in cricket and a time when it was rare to find the game deep in fiction.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera

I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.
‐‐ Eddie Trunk

I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
‐‐ Mickey Spillane

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.
‐‐ Amos Oz

I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.
‐‐ Jonathan Tropper

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

I wrote 'The Searcher' because I love westerns, and they've fallen out of fashion.
‐‐ Simon Toyne

I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.
‐‐ Jewel

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.
‐‐ Jackson Browne

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.
‐‐ John le Carre

I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.
‐‐ Rick Wright

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
‐‐ Theodore Sturgeon

I wrote the worst novel ever.
‐‐ Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.
‐‐ Max Brooks

I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'This is so groundbreaking... this is going to change the landscape,' but I don't see that result at all. When we saw some female studio executives, we were hopeful that more women would be hired as directors, but that didn't really seem to happen.
‐‐ Callie Khouri