I Wrote Quotes
961 I Wrote quotes by 760 unique authors
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When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana. We have fairs…
— Hunter Hayes
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I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work…
— Rick James
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I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and…
— Jewel
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I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a kids album that…
— Jewel
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective…
— Billy Joel
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When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived…
— Mindy Kaling
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I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's…
— Jonathan Kozol
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I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I…
— Tony Kushner
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For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.
— Geddy Lee
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I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.
— Seth MacFarlane
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Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels…
— Hilary Mantel
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I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.
— George R. R. Martin
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I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and…
— George R. R. Martin
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There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try…
— Matthew McConaughey
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I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires.…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.
— Kylie Minogue
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What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for…
— Alanis Morissette
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
— Toni Morrison
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When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that…
— Haruki Murakami
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I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.
— Walter Dean Myers
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In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I…
— Oliver North
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I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living…
— David Ogilvy
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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got…
— Ben Okri
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