Quotes of: I-write Keyword

I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.

Jeff Garlin

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

Jose Saramago

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.

Katherine Paterson

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

Sara Shepard

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

Jesse Eisenberg

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.

Margaret Mahy

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

Michael Pollan

My inspiration comes from God, so I always have to be open, kind of like being an antenna. I like to write songs people love.

Brenda Russell

Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No.

Alanis Morissette

All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

B.o.B

Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do?

Clark Blaise

All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that obnoxious and get away with it.

Christopher Moore

I have been writing since 11th grade, and have a few features that have almost gotten off the ground. I really want one of my features to come to life.

Devon Bostick

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.

John Grogan

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

Jill Hennessy

I was born in Philadelphia, and I've tried to escape that city all my life. I end up writing plays that force me back to Philadelphia, at least psychologically if not physically.

Lyle Kessler

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

Madeleine L'Engle

Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.

Philipp Meyer

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

Patrick White

I remember reading the script for 'Dangerous Liaisons' and thinking that I could quite happily spend the rest of my life watching this film; the story and the writing were so wonderful.

Stephen Frears

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

Sue Townsend