1348 Wrote Quotes for You to Enjoy

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel. Leslie Fiedler

Books Memoir Area He Between Protagonist Wrote Calls His Often Novel Novels Henry Miller Gray Gray Area

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature. Leslie Fiedler

More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way. Lev Grossman

Love Great Science Fear Looking Innocence Way Scared Horror More Write Writers He Ray Ray Bradbury Like Openly Wrote Himself Science Fiction Felt Without Optimistic Than Afraid Fiction Anything Fantasy Many Even Utterly

When I started writing songs at 18, I wrote about 100 that were crap. One was called 'Dog In A Disco.' Limahl

Writing Dog About Songs Wrote Disco Were Crap Started

It'll never get old to hear a song that I wrote on the radio or to hear what someone experienced when they heard a song I wrote. Linda Perry

Song Old Someone Never Wrote Hear Heard Get Experienced Radio

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer. Linda Sue Park

Mom Writing Remember Long Reading Before Kindergarten Writer Main Main Reason Wrote Reader Became Still Been Stories Reason Even

I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time. Linton Kwesi Johnson

When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall. But writing fiction takes gall. Lionel Shriver

Class Writing Perspective Own Some Economic Had He Takes Wrote Condemned His Truman Truman Capote Than Fiction Gall Lower Capote

I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too. Lisa Graff

I had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going Young Authors Conference where I'd get to hang out with authors all day. Lisa McMann

Teacher Best Day Class Young Defining Those All Day Out Would Would-Be Had Wrote Said Conference Get Grade Authors Hang Going Where Story Moments Therefore Fourth

When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner. Lisel Mueller

'Carbs' is the first song I wrote, and 'I Wanna Boi' is the second song I wrote. I am very proud of every song I made since then. Anything I'm not proud of I wouldn't show people. Liv Bruce

People Song Made First Every Since Wrote Proud Am Very Wanna Anything Then Show Show People Carbs Second

I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff. Liz Phair

You People Independence Difficult Typical Collaborating Would Would-Be Structure Fact Songs Songwriting Knew Stuff Know Wrote Known Because Sound Were Lot Very Quirky Much Really Original

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power. Lois Lowry

Racism Words World Language Poverty Power Society Fluency Bad Futuristic Sexism Only Giver Mythical Divorce Attention Contained Also Wrote Precision So-Called After Pollution Paid Utopian Violence Set Careful

I grew up in a time where on things like 'The Red Skeleton Show' or even to a certain extent on 'The Carol Burnett Show,' people wrote in the breakouts or ad-libs. They were scripted to look spontaneous. So I always had a dislike of that kind of thing. Lorne Michaels

Time People Carol Carol Burnett Kind Had Red Like Spontaneous Look Wrote Always Were Up Where Grew Burnett Skeleton Scripted Dislike Certain Certain Extent Show Show People Even Thing Things Extent

I wrote a song for my sister's wedding. Lou Barlow

Song Sister Wedding Wrote

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs. Lou Reed

Good Own My Own Through Songs Idea Wrote Material Real Goal Get Any Wanted Acted Fun Actor Things

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected. Louise Brown

Wrote Quotes

No more wrote quotes