I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I…

“Many creatives want to be just the creator, or only “the idea guy.” They like that because it’s sexy and because that’s what comes…

— Ryan Holiday

I'm kind of an idea guy.

— Jeff Bridges

In Joe Yorio you find a guy who's smarter at business than I am. I'm an entrepreneur and idea guy; he's a professional businessman.

— Erik Prince

Wrote the book on pain.

— Shinedown

I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of…

— Michael Jackson

My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss of a…

— Alicia Coppola

I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.

— Geoff Thompson

If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.

— Dick Dale

I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in my stand-up,…

— Robert Klein

My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my writing life.…

— Anne Roiphe

“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.”

— Jim Lewis

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

When I wrote the book, I thought that I was the hero of my story. And in writing it, I came to realize over…

— Trevor Noah

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote…

— Jim Gaffigan