Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
Nana Mouskouri

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
Harold Pinter

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.
Rex Stout

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
Harold Pinter

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.
James Merrill

No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.
Ring Lardner

I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.
Jeff Ament

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.
Shimon Peres

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
Ama Ata Aidoo

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb Colton

In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
Cathy Guisewite

He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin.
Emma Stone

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.
Lawrence Welk

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
Anita Desai

I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
Jack Vance

If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.
Neil Patrick Harris

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.
David Rockefeller

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
Billy Joel

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

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
Rita Dove