I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
Carl Sandburg

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
Carl Sandburg

Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.
Ken Kesey

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.
Neil Young

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.
Neil Young

Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.
Cat Stevens

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

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
Toni Morrison

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
James M. Barrie

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!
Johnny Cash

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.
Geddy Lee

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.
Frank Carson

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.
Francis Ford Coppola

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
Jacques Derrida

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.
Frank McCourt

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
Augusten Burroughs

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Samuel Johnson

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.
Gregg Allman