Wrote Quotes
2110 quotes by 1639 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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'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
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The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
— Ray Bradbury
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That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.
— Christina Aguilera
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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
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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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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
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Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.
— Sholom Aleichem
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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
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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
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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
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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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