I Wrote Quotes
961 I Wrote quotes by 760 unique authors
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I jog through the halls and then go upstairs to Jane’s locker and carefully slip the note I wrote last night through the vent: To:…
— John Green
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My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My…
— John Marsden
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I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.
— Mary Oliver
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I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people.…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of…
— Anne Lamott
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I haven't even read everything I wrote.
— Karl Barth
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Dad, I wrote. I'm with Alice. Edward's in trouble. You can ground me when I get back. I know it's a bad time. So sorry.…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It…
— Jay-Z
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I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.
— Ken Follett
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Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to…
— Diana Gabaldon
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I wrote this [Most Kings] before MJ died, and his death only proves my point: When he was alive, the King of Pop, people were…
— Jay-Z
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I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of gossip…
— Michael Jackson
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Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I…
— David Levithan
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And I'm moved, it's so beautiful. Not what I wrote, but to have it given back like this. To have her remember the words and…
— David Levithan
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I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I…
— Richard Dawkins
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You know what Hans told me last week?" she says as I open the door of my fitting room. "He told me to write down…
— Sophie Kinsella
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You told me I wrote that poem because I was afraid of dealing with myself. And I used my mom as an excuse, accusing her…
— Jay Asher
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See the valentine I made for Linus? On the inside, I wrote, To my sweet babboo." "He says he's not your sweet babboo." "What does…
— Charles M. Schulz
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I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working…
— Kathryn Stockett
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And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth.
— John Green
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Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This…
— J.A. Konrath
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Anyway, my office is small - one room, but on the corner, with a couple of windows. The sign on the door reads, simply, HARRY…
— Jim Butcher
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In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are…
— Stephen Fry
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I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department.…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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