Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
Arthur Conan Doyle

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
Albert Ellis

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
Jack Nicholson

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.
Seth MacFarlane

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

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
Roald Dahl

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Duke Ellington

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
Stephen Sondheim

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

I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.
Thom Yorke

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.
Stephen Colbert

A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.
Anne McCaffrey

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

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Tennessee Williams

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.
John Irving

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.
Travis Barker

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
Tim Berners-Lee

I can't remember anything I ever wrote.
Joni Mitchell

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. Forster

I wrote my first play when I was eight.
Pam Gems