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Things began to pick up for me record-wise when in 1971 I wrote 'She's a Lady' for Tom Jones.
Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.
I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.
Looking back on it now, I felt that I was blessed much like the masters, I guess - the guys who wrote the concertos.
I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract.
I often joke that I could write 'War and Peace' and make it sound like Geri Halliwell wrote it.
The first and last song I ever wrote was a ballad I was quite proud of, and one I would play for anyone, anywhere.
I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.
Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.
I wrote six versions of a 30-second tease for an NBA game. You never get it right on the first try.
I think my interviews were much better than what some of the writers wrote. I just wanted the truth out.
Ive always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .
I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.
When I wrote my cookbook, 'I Love Crab Cakes,' I asked some of my best chef buddies to contribute recipes.
I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
I used to play golf with a guy who cheated so badly that he once had a hole in one and wrote down zero on the scorecard.
I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
I'm a big fan of Woody Allen. I used to love the fact that he wrote his own screenplay and acted in the movie.
We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
My mom's a lawyer. She was part of the group that wrote the bar exam. My father is a dentist. They've always worked.
Yes, I co-wrote a song on the album called "Good Friend To Me" with Annie Roboff and Bekka Bramlett.
Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.
As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.
I wrote 'Time Stops at Shamli' in 1956, shortly after 'The Room on the Roof' was published, and I couldn't find anyone to publish it.
I wrote 'The Hate U Give' as a short story while I was in college at a mostly white school in conservative Mississippi.
A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.
I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say.
I wrote a graphic novel that came out in 2011 called 'Everlast.' We had a really successful run with that.
I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.
I read the three Hunger Games books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote Just a Game.
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician.
I wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in an electronic studio.
Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.
I decided to write [Collateral Beauty] on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.
I wrote my first play when I was nine, it was about Robin Hood, from Maid Marian's point of view. I was a feminist from day one.
When our Founding Fathers wrote the historic words 'all men are created equal,' they probably didn't have people like me in mind.
I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?
The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.
I wrote a book with my mom and my sister for fun. I had no idea it would be a 'New York Times' bestseller.
In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.
This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.
Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.
I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.
I was worried that, as a college teacher, if I wrote too much about intergenerational sex my students would be creeped out.
As a matter of fact, when people ask where my 'point of view' comes from, it was there in one of the first sketches we wrote for [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis.
I essentially have always directed everything on my TV show without using that title; I edited and wrote all my stuff.
I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.
What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.
When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!
I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.
I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.
What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.
