Believe Quote by Billy Joel

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

— Dennis Farina

In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of…

— Fernando Pessoa

The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal…

— Trent Reznor

I wrote for many years without showing my writing to anyone, because I was constantly comparing it to what I was reading. You have…

— Pankaj Mishra

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though…

— Garth Ennis

“Another time, talking about his books, the baroness confessed that she had never bothered to read any of them, because she hardly ever read…

— Roberto Bolaño

“She wrote for years, one book after another, just trying to get somewhere. At one point, despite all the roadblocks her publisher put in…

— Wendy Wax

I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're…

— Patrick deWitt

I wrote three years for Lucille Ball. She taught me everything I know about physical comedy...

— Garry Marshall

I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I…

— Maya Angelou

As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I…

— James A. Michener

'Lucky Man' I wrote when I was twelve years old. I wrote it when I first was given a guitar by my mother. I…

— Greg Lake