Wrote Quotes

What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

Well, I never got into the young adult headspace. With 'Twilight,' they are pretty adult themes, aside from maybe the first one, but even that. They're very adult themes, actually, particularly as the characters age. I never wrote for young adults. I wrote for myself, as an audience.

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

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

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

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.

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.

When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!

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

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

That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.

Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.

Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an artists and their own song.

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.'

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.

And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.