“I was afraid I wrote neither well enough nor ill enough for success.” — E.W. Hornung Copy Share Image
I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for 'The Social Network.' — Liberty Ross Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11. — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves. — Jon Hurwitz Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Steve produced Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys and one more. Then he and I wrote a few songs together and became… — Jimmy Griffin Copy Share Image
I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I was writing with different people in Nashville - whoever I could. Eddie Hinton came on the scene about 1963, and about… — Donnie Fritts Copy Share Image
“Nothing expresses Kafka’s innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of “writing as a form of prayer”: he was… — Ernst Pawel Copy Share Image
I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I think that 'Prayers' is a really interesting one because we wrote it well before the border crisis was happening, and in… — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“So much of me longs to run after him and cry, 'Yes, yes, yes!' A few hours ago, when I wrote I… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,'… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
Lifes That Way was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasnt written as a book. It was written as a… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
Horror films had died a little bit before Scream came around. That was one of the reasons I wrote it. I wanted… — Kevin D. Williamson Copy Share Image
I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'This is so groundbreaking... this is… — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
The first song I wrote and had published was titled "Just As Long As That Someone Is You". It was written in… — Mickey Newbury Copy Share Image
We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew… — Ian Axel Copy Share Image
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...maybe writing doesn't require sacrifice. Maybe it's a gift to experience emotions through our brushes, ink, and paper. I wrote out sorrow,… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective. — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit. — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
