Quotes of: Wrote Keyword

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

Alanis Morissette

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

The Angel's Game

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

The Jane Austen Book Club

I can't find who wrote this (it was't me)but I think it is great. Before I was your mother, I was a girl.

Jazz Town

As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.

Random Harvest

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

A Room with a View

She's known sadness. That's what it is. I only just thought that as I wrote it. She's known sadness, and it has made her kind.

The Shock of the Fall

I found the poems in the fields, And only wrote them down.

The Later Poems, 1837-1864: Volumes I and II

In the haunted shade of the Ateneo, her hands wrote a curse on my skin that was to hound me for years.

The Shadow of the Wind

The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.

On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

The Poetics of Space

One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn’t a clue. A day is a fuckin’ eternity

Paula Spencer

Personally I know only one person who wrote about utopia. Afterwards he was executed. I suppose it's not my genre.

Pavilion of Thoughts

Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.

The Reaches

Abraham Lincoln wrote a poem about me once. You might know it as the Gettysburg Address. Men with beards are romantic.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Her message was short: “Any kids?” So I wrote, “Sure. But it might take me a few tries to get you pregnant.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Together me and Amy are Jaramy. Pearl Jam wrote a song about us speaking in class.

This Book Has No Title

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

Wild Geese

I wrote you a love letter. I used invisible ink to show I was being transparent with my feelings. And also to hide my feelings.

Xazaqazax

I wrote you a love letter, and I sent it snail mail. Love is forever, and that’s about how long it’ll take to get to you.

Xazaqazax

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

Demetri Martin