I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy. — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting. — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage.… — Jim McKelvey Copy Share Image
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn't feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that. — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
From the late '70s to the early '90s, I wrote anything anybody would pay me for. This ranged from articles on how… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
I wrote your name in the sky, but the wind blew it away. I wrote your name in the sand, but the… — Carlin Whisler Copy Share Image
It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Every day I must prove to myself I am a writer. The knowledge goes away in my sleep. What I wrote yesterday… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you… — Ryan Newman Copy Share Image
“A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“...the name of the baby girl, the names of her parents and godparents, the date and hour of her birth, the street… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I wrote my first song when I was about eight. It was about putting a diaper on a chicken! — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
I knew there was something about 'Sun Medallion,' in particular, because I just had to record it the second I wrote it. — King Tuff Copy Share Image
“I didn't know what words to use until my hand wrote them, though as I wrote, I saw every color, heard the… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
“And he was like, “No, no, I really think we ought to do that.” And I was like, “We don't have time!”… — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes. — Nathaniel Rich Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I didn't go to bars much. One drunken asshole was all I could handle and that was me. I wrote. I don't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did. — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang,… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I had my palm read. I wrote something on it first to see if she would read that too. — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
