Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

Carlos Fuentes

I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad.

John Prine

I wrote it just to get my father's attention,

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.

Alan Furst

I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.

Jami Attenberg

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

James Frey

I think most of what they wrote was pretty accurate, absolutely.

That's what I thought when I wrote it,

Damien Chazelle

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.

John Cleese

At the start, Connie wrote the Polly and Sybil roles, and she and I wrote Basil together,

Everyone wrote state. So everyone got what they wanted.

Christopher McQuarrie

'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.

Andre Holland

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

Alan Ball

I had no idea where I was going to go when I wrote the pilot,

Eddie Floyd

All I wanted to do was write songs, but all the things I wrote in Detroit, they put them out by different artists.

Mike DeWine

This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law,