Wrote Quotes
2110 quotes by 1583 authors
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Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now know…I thought when you were starting out it was really hard to…
— Shane Black
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I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house…
— Jackson Browne
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The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that…
— Jackson Browne
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I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and…
— Arabella Weir
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In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I…
— Buchi Emecheta
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Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing…
— David Sedaris
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All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
— Dorothy Parker
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I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like…
— Warren G. Bennis
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At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding…
— Shirley Chisholm
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
— Edward Abbey
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Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark?…
— Edward Abbey
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Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
— Edward Abbey
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I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from…
— Carl Jung
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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life…
— Jacques Derrida
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People wrote me off, but I believed in myself. I got the confidence back, and it grew and grew. I won my first major and…
— Pete Sampras
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Iran welcomes dialogue with any other states. I wrote a letter to the three European states inviting them to resume talks, but, they cancelled it.…
— Ali Larijani
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
— E. L. James
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