I Wrote Quotes
961 I Wrote quotes by 760 unique authors
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So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist.…
— Lee Child
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The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
— Sloane Crosley
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
— Upamanyu Chatterjee
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When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious,…
— Anita Desai
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My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do…
— Charlie Daniels
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I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there…
— Christopher Darden
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For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
— Anne Enright
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I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote.…
— Anne Enright
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When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same…
— Joe Eszterhas
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I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but…
— Alex Flinn
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While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North…
— Charles Frazier
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I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to…
— Jonathan Franzen
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I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.
— Jonathan Franzen
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In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone to hear it.…
— Kina Grannis
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I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.
— Tony Gilroy
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I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert…
— Walton Goggins
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After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case…
— Jeff Greenfield
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Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.
— Lisa Gardner
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I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of…
— Mike Greenberg
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
— Kate Adie
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I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a…
— Laurie Anderson
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I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing…
— Megan Abbott
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Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And…
— Peter Ackroyd
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At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
— Piers Anthony
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