I Wrote Quotes

961 I Wrote quotes by 760 unique authors

'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need… — Cat Stevens
I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing… — Taylor Swift
The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me. — Taylor Swift
'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then… — Taylor Swift
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for… — Paul Theroux
I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is… — Helen Thomas
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. — Henry David Thoreau
When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system,… — Linus Torvalds
When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even… — Rufus Wainwright
I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of… — Ayelet Waldman
I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the… — Florence Welch
I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago. — Paul Weller
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an… — Elie Wiesel
There used to be a huge hole in my life that I wrote many albums about. I didn't realise it was a wife-and-daughter-shaped hole. They've… — Robbie Williams
I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I… — Tom Wolfe
The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and… — Tom Wolfe
I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. — Steven Wright
To the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show's almost like a 90-minute song that I know… — Steven Wright
I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the… — Thom Yorke
Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help… — Regina Brett
I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays. — Caitlin Moran
I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to… — Colm Toibin
I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much… — Colm Toibin
I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. — Mae West
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found… — Khaled Hosseini

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