Never Wrote Quotes
36 quotes by 35 authors
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As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never…
— Julie Burchill
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Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.
— Victor Borge
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It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes…
— Elvis Presley
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A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting.
— Dr. Seuss
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I do not choose my listeners. What I mean is, I never write for my listeners. I think about my audience, but I am not…
— Henryk Gorecki
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What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.
— Buster Keaton
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Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a…
— Max Lucado
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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
— William Hazlitt
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Allow me to add that it is my conviction that the contents of Der Stuermer as such were not (incitement). During the whole 20 years,…
— Julius Streicher
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Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe.
— Ruta Sepetys
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On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was…
— Dorothy Parker
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Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.
— Edward Dahlberg
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See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.
— Mel Torme
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A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never…
— John Steinbeck
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Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures…
— Garrett Hedlund
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I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.
— Chris Cornell
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The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote…
— William Cowper
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This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed,…
— Emily Dickinson
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Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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