Top 1200 Wrote Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

You had to read what I wrote if you lived in L.A. in 1975 and cared about pop music.

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.

I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.

Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.'

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.

Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't.

There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.

I'd rather do 'She's So Lovely' that John Cassavetes wrote versus doing 'Batman.'

The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'.

I've met so many amazing fans in the couple of weeks since the release of my second album, and everyone keeps telling me they feel so connected to the record. I think as an artist, all you really want out of your album is to feel like you're not alone.Because you wrote it for a reason. You wrote it because you're feeling some kind of emotion that you had to get out in the world. And if fans say, "that makes me feel like I'm not alone", then you get to say back to them, "Well, you telling me that makes me feel like I'm not alone either".

I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.

Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them.

I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

I Tweeted Keri Hilson the other day and she actually wrote back! I was so excited.

I wrote a song called "Green Day" because I was smoking a lot of dope.

Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.

I wrote three stories on spec because I didn't have the patience to convince people I could write.

The first song I wrote was when I was 11. It was called 'Life Is a Path Worth Taking.'

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

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

About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

'Parsifal' is one of the great examples in art of a work that transcends the personality of the man who wrote it.

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant.

You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker.

I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'

When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.

I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

Anything I wrote before the age of 17 is probably worth putting a pin in and moving on.

I wrote my first report about Madam Walker when I was a senior in high school in 1970.

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

I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.

Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.

This book that I just wrote is going to be coming out very soon to Australia.

We must remember that [Albert] Camus wrote not even a third of what he had wished to.

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

Just as with running, there were days that I didnt feel like writing; I wrote anyways.

When I wrote 'The Girl on the Train,' nobody knew who I was, and that's quite a comfortable position to be writing in.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.

And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.

I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.

When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was snitching.

I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development.

Shakespeare wrote about what was happening during the time; it still relates to us now.

I wrote a song for Icona Pop which boosted my confidence quite a lot.

A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting.

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.