I miss THE WALLFLOWERS. Great band. Wrote my first Fan letter to them. No response. Votes: 3
Charisma CarpenterI just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song Votes: 3
Will FerrellMy daughter used to sit and watch Murder, She Wrote. I tried to watch with her, but I fell asleep. Votes: 3
Angela LansburyThere's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental. Votes: 0
James PurdyArchitecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names. Votes: 0
Ludwig Mies van der RoheThe way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. Votes: 0
Ray StevensonCharlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe. Votes: 0
Ruta SepetysUntil recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally. Votes: 0
Billy CollinsI probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands. Votes: 0
Richard ThompsonBefore I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott. Votes: 0
Lisa GardnerWhatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines. Votes: 0
Betty FriedanI'm always studying. I probably wrote the most papers of any college quarterback. Votes: 0
Robert Griffin IIIPeople are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars. Votes: 0
Dominick DunneIn the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective. Votes: 0
Kacey MusgravesBarrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. Votes: 0
Isabel AllendeMe and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator. Votes: 0
Heather MorrisI always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did. Votes: 0
Zoe KazanI wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published Votes: 0
Caroline B. CooneyBilly Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers. Votes: 0
Quincy JonesWhen they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote. Votes: 0
Jesse JacksonI have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare. Votes: 0
Lewis F. Powell Jr.I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady. Votes: 0
Kurt VonnegutMy thesis statement would beâBach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music. Votes: 0
Chris ThileThe very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more. Votes: 0
Michele BachmannDavid Ogilvy made his copywriters come up 100 different headlines for every ad they wrote. Votes: 0
David OgilvyPeople remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages! Votes: 0
J. R. R. TolkienIf writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf. Votes: 0
Daniel HandlerI wrote a song called 'Green Day' because I was smoking a lot of dope. Votes: 0
Billie Joe ArmstrongIf the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. Votes: 0
Tennessee WilliamsI went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . . Votes: 0
Wilford WoodruffDo you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming. Votes: 0
Henry RollinsI would just watch the animals, and their stories would roll out when I wrote. Votes: 0
Jean Craighead GeorgeI wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts. Votes: 0
Merritt WeverThe truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten. Votes: 0
Sloane CrosleyAnd as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote. Votes: 0
Amy WinehouseI was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se. Votes: 0
Curtis HansonShakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear. Votes: 0
Simon CallowIf you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President. Votes: 0
Vaclav HavelMe and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator.' Votes: 0
Heather MorrisYes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read. Votes: 0
Omar KhayyamWe write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection. Votes: 0
Sue Monk KiddI am the red wheelbarrow of communism. William Carlos Williams wrote a poem about me. Votes: 0
Jarod KintzSo what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die. Votes: 0
Lou HoltzBill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic. Votes: 0
Steve WozniakThose people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law. Votes: 0
Warren BeattyI didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance. Votes: 0
Mark MillarI accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to everyone who was offended. Votes: 0
Amy PascalHe adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence. Votes: 0
Lord ChesterfieldColeridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life. Votes: 0
Sidney SheldonI always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular. Votes: 0
Amy WinehouseIf I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow. Votes: 0
Ta-Nehisi CoatesFilmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists. Votes: 0
Wim WendersBrahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote. Votes: 0
Dietrich Fischer-DieskauPoe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts. Votes: 0
Arthur Twining Hadleyhe threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it Votes: 0
Allen GinsbergAnd he wrote, "When the moon rises tonight think of me and I'll think of you. Votes: 0
Lucy Maud MontgomeryI wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it. Votes: 0
Jonathan TropperWhen people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me. Votes: 0
Callie KhouriI wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa. Votes: 0
Damon GalgutIf all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest. Votes: 0
Eric BogosianPeople ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece. Votes: 0
Richard Rodney BennettAs a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American. Votes: 0
Sharon SalzbergI did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. Votes: 0
Harriet Beecher StoweA lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots. Votes: 0
Rupert HolmesTogether me and Amy are Jaramy. Pearl Jam wrote a song about us speaking in class. Votes: 0
Jarod KintzShakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.' Votes: 0
Simon CallowI Tweeted Keri Hilson the other day and she actually wrote back! I was so excited. Votes: 0
Kevin DurantA lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots." Votes: 0
Rupert HolmesI wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished. Votes: 0
Alistair MacLeanWestern man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race. Votes: 0
John Oliver KillensThe Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'. Votes: 0
Stephen FryI remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.' Votes: 0
Gwen StefaniWhen I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice. Votes: 0
Joseph WambaughI always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing. Votes: 0
Carly SimonTrollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out. Votes: 0
Jane SmileyOh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis. Votes: 0
Val GuestJust as with running, there were days that I didnt feel like writing; I wrote anyways. Votes: 0
Nick SymmondsI wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettWe wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. Votes: 0
Salvatore QuasimodoMy mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked. Votes: 0
Joy HarjoAfter leaving ImageMovers, I sold two pitches to Fox Atomic, which I then wrote for them. Votes: 0
Lauren MillerI've always just wished that maybe someday people would care about the words that I wrote. Votes: 0
Taylor SwiftAnton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyI wrote three years for Lucille Ball. She taught me everything I know about physical comedy. Votes: 0
Garry MarshallI'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. Votes: 0
Mickey SpillaneSeeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome. Votes: 0
Ben MezrichThe Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner! Votes: 0
Red ButtonsWhen I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18. Votes: 0
Harrison BirtwistleLike every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonWouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonA critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. Votes: 0
Mignon McLaughlinHe wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind. Votes: 0
John AdamsEvery time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better. Votes: 0
Adam McKayI always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry. Votes: 0
Patti SmithImagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got. Votes: 0
Philip Jose FarmerWe must remember that [Albert] Camus wrote not even a third of what he had wished to. Votes: 0
Catherine CamusAs Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun. Votes: 0
Martin GardnerMy training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing. Votes: 0
Ernest HemingwayI actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live. Votes: 0
Max BrooksPeople should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it. Votes: 0
Wallace StevensWhen I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy. Votes: 0
Dawn FrenchI wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. Votes: 0
Mae WestIf, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation. Votes: 0
Bradford MorrowI wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry. Votes: 0
Stephen ColbertI wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington. Votes: 0
Alan FurstI wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it. Votes: 0
John SteinbeckWe like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about. Votes: 0
Catherynne M. ValenteI'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development. Votes: 0
Manning MarableI always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11 Votes: 0
Sara ParetskyI always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11. Votes: 0
Sara ParetskyWhenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist. Votes: 0
Allen ToussaintNobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas. Votes: 0
Rebecca WestThe fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe. Votes: 0
Erin MorgensternOn that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world." Votes: 0
Laurence HousmanI wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes. Votes: 0
Gabriel CampisiMy brother-in-law wrote an unusual murder story. The victim got killed by a man from another book. Votes: 0
Robert SylvesterIn my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit. Votes: 0
Christopher MeloniJim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid. Votes: 0
Neil Patrick HarrisNo man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith. Votes: 0
Louis L'AmourMy mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. Votes: 0
Alice WalkerThe song 'Baby Baby,' I so love that song because I wrote it about my first daughter. Votes: 0
Amy GrantI wrote my first song when I was 6 years old. It was actually called 'Six Years Old.' Votes: 0
Hunter HayesIn my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. Votes: 0
Danielle SteelI actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.' Votes: 0
Max BrooksYou know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more. Votes: 0
Michael ConnellyWith 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30. Votes: 0
Rian JohnsonRemember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess! Votes: 0
Maurice RavelI wrote an entire movie [Man up] about how important I think voices are, so it was funny. Votes: 0
Lake BellI wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous. Votes: 0
Danielle SteelI wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live. Votes: 0
Anupam KherI always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that. Votes: 0
Cameron CroweI wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at. Votes: 0
Kate AdieI don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons. Votes: 0
Upamanyu ChatterjeeI wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs. Votes: 0
Billy SherwoodIn spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women. Votes: 0
Bill CosbySince childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays. Votes: 0
Jill LeporeOnce I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book. Votes: 0
Nana MouskouriThings began to pick up for me record-wise when in 1971 I wrote 'She's a Lady' for Tom Jones. Votes: 0
Paul AnkaI've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book. Votes: 0
Greg BehrendtParents should not let kids listen to my music if it's offensive. I wrote these songs for me. Votes: 0
KeshaEric Clapton wrote "Layla" when he was coked out of his mind. Later on, it nearly killed him. Votes: 0
Lemmy KilmisterMorrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip! Votes: 0
Nancy SinatraI've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap? Votes: 0
Dennis FarinaI wrote Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it. Votes: 0
Daniel JohnsI like them all. ... They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. ... I have no favorite songs. Votes: 0
Paul SimonI have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauI wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant. Votes: 0
Elizabeth CrookI simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all. Votes: 0
Martin LutherI wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it. Votes: 0
Daniel JohnsI wrote two plays before I was cast on The Neighbors. They actually got published, which was cool. Votes: 0
Clara MametXenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. Votes: 0
Joseph JoubertSo after the Shadows he acted and directed. And it worked out very nicely. And he wrote, obviously. Votes: 0
Gena RowlandsIsak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that. Votes: 0
Raymond CarverAs for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote Votes: 0
Casper Van DienI hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary. Votes: 0
Anne FrankI was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second. Votes: 0
Jonathan FranzenI kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy. Votes: 0
Neil GaimanI read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too. Votes: 0
Mary OliverI look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap. Votes: 0
Billy JoelI had my palm read. I wrote something on it first to see if she would read that too. Votes: 0
Mitch HedbergI wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war. Votes: 0
John Edward Christopher HillI loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one. Votes: 0
Chris BohjalianIf a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. Votes: 0
Victor HugoI wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs. Votes: 0
Hunter HayesI always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book. Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareThat's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.' Votes: 0
Phil CollinsI wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it. Votes: 0
John DarnielleI'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read. Votes: 0
Kate MortonThe bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that. Votes: 0
Sheryl CrowHere's a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don't worry, be happy. Votes: 0
Bobby McFerrinI was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong. Votes: 0
Alanis MorissetteI wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison. Votes: 0
Jeffrey ArcherI didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote. Votes: 0
Paul Thomas AndersonI often joke that I could write 'War and Peace' and make it sound like Geri Halliwell wrote it. Votes: 0
Michael RobothamAt the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellMy dad wrote a song about the people in the slides. I started playing harmonica. I was only six. Votes: 0
Rachel TrachtenburgIn middle school I wrote a paper on Hemingway and none of the sentences had more than five words. Votes: 0
Elizabeth CrookMy writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. Votes: 0
Dick SchaapI wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now. Votes: 0
Kylie MinogueI guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis. Votes: 0
Howard GordonIt took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write. Votes: 0
Natasha TretheweyYes, I co-wrote a song on the album called "Good Friend To Me" with Annie Roboff and Bekka Bramlett. Votes: 0
Jessica AndrewsI would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. Votes: 0
Virginia WoolfStrange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood. Votes: 0
William CowperJoe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?' Votes: 0
Jeffrey TamborI was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.' Votes: 0
Kevin BarryI never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about. Votes: 0
Marguerite YoungWhether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows. Votes: 0
George Frideric HandelI would love to have a song that I wrote by myself to win a 'Song of the Year' award. Votes: 0
Miranda LambertI put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauIf he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them. Votes: 0
Ernest HemingwayI want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love Votes: 0
Michael OndaatjeI wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong. Votes: 0
Eugene OrmandyPart fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out. Votes: 0
Jeanette WintersonI wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer. Votes: 0
John BoyneCapote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it. Votes: 0
Debbie HarryI just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet. Votes: 0
Lawrence WelkI don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance. Votes: 0
Frank CarsonI am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people. Votes: 0
Randy NewmanI wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me. Votes: 0
Anthony BurgessThat's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog. Votes: 0
Christina AguileraMy first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish. Votes: 0
Kate MicucciThe first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25. Votes: 0
Jess WalterRoc The Life' is a song I wrote with The Dream, who made 'Umbrella,' 'Single Ladies' and loads more. Votes: 0
Rita OraI like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book. Votes: 0
Greg BehrendtWhen I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. Votes: 0
John LennonA kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting. Votes: 0
Dr. SeussI wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that. Votes: 0
Ellie GouldingI might do my own independent film, that my husband wrote for me, if all the ducks are in a row. Votes: 0
Erica DuranceMike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don. Votes: 0
J. D. SoutherI wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.' Votes: 0
Diane Mott DavidsonFor 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time. Votes: 0
Anne EnrightI wrote six versions of a 30-second tease for an NBA game. You never get it right on the first try. Votes: 0
Mike TiricoI wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person. Votes: 0
Terrell OwensI loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars Votes: 0
T. E. LawrenceI read the three Hunger Games books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote Just a Game. Votes: 0
BirdyI wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go. Votes: 0
Edward HirschWhen I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it. Votes: 0
Nick LoweI listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?" Votes: 0
Ozzy OsbourneI would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. Votes: 0
Woodrow Wilson