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“I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.”

“I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.”

“I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries are in the handwriting of the sister closets in age (5 years my senior). She must have gotten tired of my dictations because she gave up and then my blocky scrawl shows up. I wrote plays as a kid mostly.”

Writing Years Firsts Play Shows Hands Kids Age Three Tired Journal Senior Closets Sibling Gave Up Entry Handwriting Dictation Older Sibling

Author:Julianna Baggott

“I wrote Cambridge Street to honor the bravery of immigrants who came to the U.S. a century ago. They reshaped not only this country but the world. The men and women who immigrated were heroes who had to fight for survival in a land where they were often not welcomed or wanted.”

Faith Family Immigrants Italian Siclian

Author:Steven Decker

“I wrote comedy sketches in college.”

Comedy College

Author:Ellie Kemper

“I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.”

Inspirational Children Wisdom Books

Author:Anne Holm

“I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.”

Inspirational Accepting Becoming Tolerate Raise Your Standards

Author:Tony Robbins

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“I wrote Dreams of My Mothers because it reveals deep insight into a topic - cross boarder, cross racial adoption - that rarely gets much attention from any quarter, because it represents such a niche subset of our society, but contains within it nearly all the most deeply felt – and held – human themes, passions, values, insecurities, and judgments. And loves.”

Inspirational Christian Race Mothers American Dream Adoption Biracial Americanism Korean War Culture Identity

Author:Joel L.A. Peterson

“I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.”

Book Five Finished Thirty Flats

Author:Alistair Maclean

“I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published”

Novel Adults Twenties Eight Length

Author:Caroline B. Cooney

“I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.”

Writing Age Exciting Barcelona

Author:Colm Toibin

“I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.”

Thinking Kids Written Crafts Developing 80s Just Kids

Author:Patti Smith

“I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.”

Writing Play Age Fiction Childhood Oxford Yale

Author:Taiye Selasi

“I wrote for 10 years before I even started the 'Percy Jackson' series.”

Years Series

Author:Rick Riordan

“I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself”

Feels Literature Comfortable Profession Magazines Journalism Edited

Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.”

Stuff Adventure Advertising Magazines Copies Cemetery

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“I wrote for many years without showing my writing to anyone, because I was constantly comparing it to what I was reading. You have to compare yourself to the best and feel totally inadequate.”

Feels Writing Years Reading Compare Inadequate

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.”

Ifs Hours Dark Gone Magic Six Mood Cloaks Gone Away

Author:Zane

“I wrote for Roseanne. I wrote her stand-up act with her. I wrote with Tom Arnold. There was a period when I was working with them pretty steadily. But I would take brief gigs here and there.”

Periods Toms Here And There Gigs

Author:Judd Apatow

“I wrote for television some, animation. Batman the Animated Series, Superman the Animated Series, Son of Batman, things of that nature were made and I'm happy about that, but now the recent film and TV stuff have validated me, as if that makes any sense.”

Ifs Made Film Stuff Television Son Tvs Series Animation Animated Animated Series

Author:Joe R. Lansdale

“I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.”

Writing Years Important Fiction Rejection Slips Twelve Reinforcement

Author:Lisa Alther

“I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.”

“I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me as a nonfiction writer.”

World Needs Use Novel Four I Realized Novelists Nonfiction Using Me

Author:David Quammen

“I wrote Freak the Mighty because Max, the mighty half of Freak the Mighty, insisted and he's bigger than I am.”

Half Bigger Freak Max

Author:Rodman Philbrick

“I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.”

Way Four My Way Scream Primal Yelling Junkie

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“I wrote half the record in 2002, which basically concluded with us releasing "Baby's Got A Temper," the last single. I think after the disappointment of that record for myself with the lack of energy and the way the record came out, I would say that was probably the low point of The Prodigy.”

Thinking Way Lasts Energy Half Records Baby Lows Disappointment Temper Prodigies Low Points

Author:Liam Howlett

“I wrote Her First American and I always say it took me eighteen years. It took me that long was because after about five years I stopped and wrote Lucinella. I got stuck; it was too hard to write. Lucinella felt like a lark. I wanted to write about the literary circle because it amused me, and I allowed myself to do what I wanted to do. It's just one of the things I'm allowed to do if I feel like it.”

Writing Long Stuck Eighteen

Author:Lore Segal

“I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it. Everyone I wrote to said how nice it was to hear from me, how nice it was to know I was doing well, that I was very much missed, and that they couldn't wait until the day came when I returned.”

Letters

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

Source: Lucy

“I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it.”

Ifs Heart Kind Persons Home Used Fronts Protect Rose Expected Lovely Cards Live Life Phrases Receiving Plastic Leafs Flourishing Ribbons Greetings Satin Greeting Card

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I wrote in a bedroom crowded with ghosts," Brooke Hayward says. "My mother would disapprove, and my father would be horrified. The moral of my book is that you pay for everything. They were rich, accomplished, famous and beautiful. We were drowned in privilege, yet it ended in all this hideous tragedy." (interview from People magazine (May 23, 1977)”

Rich Hollywood Tragedy Famous People Talented People

Author:Brooke Hayward

“I wrote in Les Mots that "I have often thought against myself." That sentence has not been understood either. Critics have seen in it a confession of masochism. But that is how one should think: revolting against everything "inculcated'' that one may have within oneself.”

Thinking Should May Understood Critics Oneself Sentences Confession Masochism

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.”

Writing Book Wanted Left Periods

Author:Kate Adie

“I wrote in the mornings, often in cafes, on the way to the office. I gave myself a daily word minimum, usually 750. I tried to save revision for the weekends, when I had more consecutive hours to string together.”

Way Together Hours Morning Office Strings Weekend Minimum Revision Cafes Consecutive

Author:Christopher Castellani

“I wrote in the pursuit of nonsense. What is nonsense? Something that makes no sense, but surely everything makes sense since anything spoken springs from the brain. Within the brain, small though it be, I believe, or I am told, there lies a mechanism association of ideas, so really everything is an association of something which, being so, couldn't be nonsense. It must be 'sense' of some description, but it is in the wrong place.”

Life Writing Philosophy Wisdom Truth Reflection Contemplation Attributed No Source

Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963

“I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.”

Art Two War Divides Art Of War

Author:Steven Pressfield

Source: Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work

“I wrote it all down, because my thoughts are clouds / shifting in the wind, and I'm forgetting everything." - from "The Louhan Pine”

Wind Thoughts Clouds

Author:Lauren Tivey

Source: Traveler in the Sunset Clouds

“I wrote it because we wanted to believe that our lives had some meaning. We wanted to know that we hadn't passed through the world unchanged, and that we hadn't left the world unchanged. We didn't want to come and go from this planet without leaving a mark.”

Writing War English Being Remembered Leaving A Mark

Author:John Marsden

Source: The Other Side of Dawn

“I wrote it for love, not money, but very often such books are the most successful, just as everything in the world that is born of true love has life in it, as nothing constructed for mercenary ends can ever have.”

Writing Art

Author:L.M. Montgomery

Source: The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career

“I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.”

Way Mean Funny Right Way Orchestra Wrong Way

Author:Eugene Ormandy

“I wrote letters in the classroom, I wrote letters at my desk at home with Seagull in my lap, I wrote letters at empty tables during my breaks at the Italian restaurant. It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.”

Broken Heart Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami

Author:Haruki Murakami

Source: Norwegian Wood

“I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.”

Junkie

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“I wrote lots of scripts that never got made and they were terrible. I thought they were good at the time. You can't write two scripts and expect your career to take off. Keep writing. Be you. Be original. A lot of people go for a genre, which is fine if you can do that really well, but we all have such layered histories. We all come from a unique background. Write about your past, write about you. Or make stuff up, but make it about something that really matters.”

People Ifs Writing Wells Made Two Matter Past Stuff Can Do Careers Fine Terrible Unique Originals Scripts Backgrounds Genre Be You Our Past Your Past

Author:Nicole Holofcener

“I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.”

People Knows Years Years Ago Know Me Better Now

Author:Kylie Minogue

“I wrote many songs about UFOs.”

Song Ufo

Author:Nina Hagen

“I wrote mostly about men. I hadn't interviewed a lot of women. Whenever I did, the stories were always about the struggle to be the kind of woman who got interviewed—the writers who were counted out, the politicians who were mistaken for secretaries, the actresses who were told they were too fat and tall and short and skinny and ugly and pretty. It was all the same story, which is not to say it wasn't important. But it was boring. The first time I interviewed a man, I understood we were talking about something more like the soul. The men hadn't had any external troubles. They didn't have a fear that they didn't belong. They hadn't had any obstacles. They were born knowing they belonged, and they were reassured at every turn just in case they'd forgotten. But they were still creative and still people, and so they reached for problems out of an artistic sense of yearning. Their problems weren't real. They had no identity struggle, no illness, no money fears. Instead, they had found the true stuff of their souls—of all our souls—the wound lying beneath all the survivalism and circumstance.”

Feminism Gender

Author:Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Source: Fleishman Is in Trouble

“I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.”

Writing Littles Desire Names Behinds Paid

Author:Anthony Burgess

Source: Conversations with Anthony Burgess

“I wrote much more quickly when I was younger. Over the years I've required more time in order for the pieces to arrive in a place I am happy with. The process cannot be rushed. I have to live with a piece for quite a while to feel it ultimately is where it needs to be - though anything resembling complete satisfaction remains elusive.”

Needs Feels Years Order Process Pieces Remains Satisfaction More Time Elusive

Author:Michael Hersch

“I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.”

Firsts Wells Made Film Angel Murder Accepted Made It Windmills

Author:Val Guest

“I wrote my 1st song at age 11. I haven't stopped since!”

Age Song Havens

Author:Tina Parol

“I wrote my book for people who’ve tried everything—visual boards, money meditations, manifestations, affirmations, hustle—but still feel stuck.”

Money

Author:Alex Brent

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