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961 I Wrote quotes by 760 unique authors

Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it… — Nicole Krauss
I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,… — Edmund Spenser
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this… — Jeanette Winterson
I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create… — Anais Nin
I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori. I wrote letters… — Haruki Murakami
I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think — Wystan Hugh Auden
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines,… — Kurt Vonnegut
Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to get a life.… — Henry Jenkins
Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie… — Sue Monk Kidd
That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted although married six months. Big mystery. No one knew where to… — Anne Carson
Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too.… — John Green
How can this be your car? (Nick) Well, I wrote a really big check that didn’t bounce to the dealer and then the most amazing… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
How did you escape? (Syd) I fought my way out in a manner that would have made Rambo proud. And when I got home without… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them… — Fernando Pessoa
One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space between the two… — Elizabeth Gilbert
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,… — Edmund Spenser
I wrote my will across the sky, in stars — T.E. Lawrence
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked… — John Lennon
I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was but the poems… — Francesca Lia Block
If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over,… — Peter Carey
Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or… — Anne Lamott
Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters —… — Maurice Sendak
When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90) — Natalie Goldberg

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