I Wrote Quotes

961 I Wrote quotes by 760 unique authors

I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had,… — Tom Glazer
Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am… — Stephen Covey
I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book… — Jacques Pepin
Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old — Casey Stengel
I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better. — Steven Pressfield
I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans to think heroin… — Layne Staley
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to… — Lisa Alther
My own experience of growing up as a Roman Catholic in Scotland has led me to fear independence in Scotland. The possibility of Scotland being… — George Galloway
I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it — Warren Zevon
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. — Eudora Welty
For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now… — August Wilson
I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife. — Jilly Cooper
About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract. — Tim LaHaye
It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is… — Robert Byrd
I wrote an album about being in love. I don't think it's possible to write an album while you're in love - why on earth… — Gary Lightbody
I wrote my thesis on welfare policy. — Bob McDonnell
I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is… — Noy Holland
I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published. — Fred Saberhagen
All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve… — Yukio Mishima
The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own… — Galen
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published — Caroline B. Cooney
I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till… — Alan Shearer
To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily,… — Tom Bissell
I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished. — Alistair Maclean

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