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I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So… — Paul Auster
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right… — Chinua Achebe
I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I… — Roseanne Barr
Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not… — Drew Barrymore
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity… — James M. Barrie
Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A… — Annie Besant
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories… — Annie Besant
When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him… — Joe Biden
I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in… — Erma Bombeck
'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically;… — Anthony Bourdain
The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars. — Ray Bradbury
That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog. — Christina Aguilera
For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and -… — Mitch Albom
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
In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived… — Carol Burnett
Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose. — Sholom Aleichem
In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not… — Meg Cabot
When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love… — Jane Campion
When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance. — Frank Carson

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