I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
Danielle Steel

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
Danielle Steel

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.
Mose Allison

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.
Cynthia Weil

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.
William Hazlitt

In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels.
George Stephen

I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
Gavin Rossdale

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
Jackson Pollock

This book that I just wrote is going to be coming out very soon to Australia.
Ronald Biggs

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
Octavia Butler

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

You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
Camille Claudel

I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
Harrison Birtwistle

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
Catherine Deneuve

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
John Grisham

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
Paul Ryan

It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media.
Chuck Klosterman

But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of.
Jenny Agutter

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.
Len Deighton