Wrote Quotes

• I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Knew
  • Wrote

• “When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing. Now, God only knows.”

  

  Karl Weierstrass
  • God
  • Knows
  • Doing

• I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Never
  • Before
  • Wrote

• For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Song
  • Fascinated
  • Nun

• I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • First
  • Piano
  • Wrote

• I came up with a story and I wrote it.

  

  E. L. James
  • Up
  • Story
  • Wrote

• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Music
  • Words
  • Right

• From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Writing
  • Over
  • Wrote

• I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • God
  • Write
  • Wrote

• I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth. Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth. It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play. Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Truth
  • Game
  • Words

• John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Future
  • Human
  • Race

• It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Characters

• Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Book
  • Revolution
  • Wrote

• It is to me, obvious in the memo that I wrote to Fred Fielding that it was about whether or not it's good to have more lawyers. Whether they were from homemakers, from plumbers, from artists or truck drivers had nothing to do with it.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Wrote
  • Memo
  • Fred Fielding

• Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Long
  • Books

• I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Small
  • Theater
  • Wrote

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

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Writer
  • Pay
  • Wrote

• Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Read
  • Wrote

• I was talking to Cecil Castellucci, who writes Shade, and I was saying to her, and she was saying the same thing, that I'm not even the same person who wrote the first issue of Doom Patrol, and that was six months ago. I'm a totally different person now, already. It's weird to look back at stuff, but it's an honor that there's a legacy of people who still keep it in their heads. It's really cool!

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Person
  • Talking
  • Doom Patrol

• We became the songs we wrote.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Songs
  • Wrote
  • Became

• I wrote a book, and I just love it when people come up to me and say, 'I read your book and loved it.

  

  Michelle Phillips The Mamas & The Papas
  • People
  • Book
  • Wrote

• If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Wrote
  • Painted
  • Composed

• I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Movie
  • First
  • Asked

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