I Wrote Quotes

961 I Wrote quotes by 760 unique authors

I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of beer, I found… — Graham Greene
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still. — Arthur Rimbaud
And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those… — Stephen Chbosky
And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and… — Mark Haddon
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. — Mark Twain
I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many… — Jorge Luis Borges
Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be… — Catherine Marshall
This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity… — Robert Bolt
Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How… — Oscar Wilde
...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything — Mark Haddon
You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you… — C.S. Lewis
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early… — Eudora Welty
When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The second thing I wrote down that day was that exclusive male imagery of the Divine not only instilled an imbalance within human consciousness, it… — Sue Monk Kidd
I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I… — Marguerite Duras
I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner? — Frank Zappa
your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench… — Charles Bukowski
Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could… — Sylvia Plath
I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild exultation, with guilt,… — May Sarton
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty… — Alice Hoffman
Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got. — Philip Jose Farmer
In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have… — Anais Nin
... the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, 'To mourn,' and then, 'To try… — Jonathan Safran Foer

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