Top 1200 Wrote Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

In the '70s and '80s, if you said you wrote for 'the people,' that meant you weren't any good. But I think that's changing.

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

The story of 'Punyakoti' is real-intense. It has a lot of layers and is not as simple as the stuff I wrote when I was an amateur.

'Fanboys' was the first real screenplay that I ever wrote that was an original story with my own characters.

Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

Gibson wrote 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter, you know, before the technology he was writing about existed.

I had this vivid dream and woke up and I wrote the 'MyPillow' logo all over the house.

I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.

It's a different process for me, but it's really cool to hear someone else singing the song that you wrote.

I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.

I wrote and recorded 'Outside the War' and 'Run from the Races' while I was nine months pregnant.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.

I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

Even though I wrote 'The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family,' my life is as chaotic as most people's.

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

I was a political journalist for a long time. I wrote a book about Putin. I made all kinds of trouble.

People like that I wrote a book - that's cute, but oh, making a business out of it? That's not nice.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

My dad wrote a song about the people in the slides. I started playing harmonica. I was only six.

I wrote to the local news guy when I was 12 years old. I said, 'What do I need to do to be you one day?'

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

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

The new film I'm shooting in Jerusalem - which is partly why I'm here in Israel - is something I co-wrote.

I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.

I produced and starred in 'Wake the Riderless Horse,' a short film that my buddy wrote and directed.

The first time I ever wrote anything, it was an editorial column for my high school newspaper.

We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as a duet

I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

Something happened to me when I wrote female characters in my early plays; it was a real liberation.

No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

I wrote 'On Second Thought' in five minutes in the back of my bus going through Montana.

The very first song I ever wrote was called 'I See Between The Trees,' when I was 9. It was really bad.

The first song I wrote was for my friend. She was going through a really tough time.

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

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became 'Amelia's Notebook.'

When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.

I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.

If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!

If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.

I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love

I wrote a lot of scripts that were dark and fairy tale-like, but too strange.

I've always just wished that maybe someday people would care about the words that I wrote.

And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.

I wrote the 'Marigold Hotel' series and with the first one, people hated it in the U.K. but in America they really liked it.

I wrote 'Kamala and Maya's Big Idea' because I don't want my daughters to think in euphemisms.

I wrote 'Linger' in about eight minutes. But some songs will take weeks to write.

She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's bigger and stronger than you are

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.

Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.