I Wrote Quotes

961 I Wrote quotes by 760 unique authors

I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough… — Dilys Laing
After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of… — Alan Jackson
One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I wrote her a… — Stephen King
I was doing a campaign once for a manufacturer, and I couldn't think of an ideas, and I was kind of desperate about it. The… — David Ogilvy
One time I was hanging out with a girl and I wanted to kiss her. I was too nervous to do it, so I wrote… — Dave Franco
Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my way into the… — J M Coetzee
I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. — Henry David Thoreau
As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned… — James A. Michener
Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I came… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me. — Anthony Burgess
When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!' — Mikhail Tal
Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw. — Jack Kerouac
Do you know how many movies I wrote when I was high? — Jon Stewart
I tended not to be concerned about whether a song was going to be a hit when I wrote it. Because it became evident that… — Hal David
When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning… — Kate Bush
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would… — Carly Simon
For years I walked around with the phrase "Green River" because I had seen that on a soda fountain drink when I was probably 8… — John Fogerty
When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come… — Ray Davies
There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to… — Laura Nyro
What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. ... I wrote… — Rod Stewart
Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk… — Bruce Hornsby
So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it ought to be,… — Andy Wilkinson
I could send myself right back to the day that I wrote "Angel Of The Morning," how it felt. I had a buzz through me… — Chip Taylor
By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could… — Steve Earle
We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid...it had become… — Jorma Kaukonen

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