Ayi Kwei Armah quote: "I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've been trained to write, I do that as a defense against total despair. And seeing people like you, who are actively engaged in trying to salvage pieces of our wrecked lives, gives me hope that after all we are not alone."

Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE

My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which g...
ADAM MANSBACH

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I ...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY

All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION

We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD

What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY

If they want to write about me in a good way, they should write how I do things that are useful.
BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ

I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I re...
MADISON MARLOW

I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way...
CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like ...
NOEL CLARKE

When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, ...
JANE YOLEN

I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.
MELISSA LEE-HOUGHTON

I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where yo...
CECELIA AHERN

I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write becaus...
ORHAN PAMUK

I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonde...
C. JOYBELL C.

Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I

I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I

On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I

casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I

I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I

I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I

I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I

I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I

I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I

You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I

I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I

Married to the Mob.
LIKE I

Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I

I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I

throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I

I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I

Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I ...
HA JIN

A lot of pieces I have written have to do with courage. As a result, people think that I am naturall...
C. JOYBELL C.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.
JOHN MAYER

Who am I? I am that. Nothing can change that. Words, intellect and concepts can never reach that. It...
AMIT RAY

I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that...
CHARLES M. BLOW

I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about th...
IRVINE WELSH

In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

I don't think of myself as a critic at all. I'm a reviewer and essayist. I mainly hope to sh...
MICHAEL DIRDA

I want to do something splendid…
Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten afte...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that s...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ

Whatever I do, however I find a way to live, I will tell these stories. I have spoken to every perso...
DAVE EGGERS

I just wanted to write books I wanted to write, ... There's no writer who has not had enough ego to ...
ROBERT JORDAN

I will tell these stories...because to do anything else would be something less than human. I speak ...
DAVE EGGERS

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better under...
STEPHEN KING

Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
HANSJORG WYSS

And so I write. I write my life. I write to escape real life. I write to live moments over again. I ...
R.B. O'BRIEN

What's more, I was free to do anything that did not hurt others that strengthened me and helped me i...
SAMUEL R. DELANY

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. ...
KATE ATKINSON

I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see somethin...
ELIE WIESEL

I think most people who write want to write, so that's what they do, ... I hope that this is a book ...
LAURA EVANS

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do...
JOHN SAYLES

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do ...
RICHARD MARTIN STERN

I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that ...
MICHAEL MOORE

All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I de...
JO NESBO

I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM

As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until ...
ELLEN GLASGOW

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of o...
BILLY JOEL

To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifyin...
BARRY MANILOW

This is going to get more people involved in the process, and I am supportive of anything that gets ...
ANTHONY POLLINA

Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to de...
DESMOND TUTU

The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a ro...
BOB COLACELLO

I tried hard to understand that there is no God But i failed . and now i chose to be smarter than to...
ANWAR DANI

I read and write for character. If I like and can relate to the characters in a story I can enjoy an...
CHARLES DE LINT

I'm trying to grow more limbs in order to multitask at a greater rate and I'm also investiga...
EZRA MILLER

I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesb...
JERRY FALWELL

Darling,
You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Are you going to change yet again, shift your position according to the questions that are put to yo...
MICHEL FOUCAULT

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.
DAVE DAVIES

Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what t...
ISAIAH MUSTAFA

I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those t...
VICKY MCCLURE

I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are s...
CHARLES KING

I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's ...
NANCY GARDEN

Going on unemployment was a total low point for me, but it was also the point when I promised myself...
PAUL DOWNS COLAIZZO

As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons an...
JEFFREY SKOLL

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so ter...
AUDRE LORDE

I tried to write something that is majestic, and perhaps more modern than classical in style.
ALEX ANISHENKO

The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that defin...
SABRINA WARD HARRISON

I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Ye...
BETTY FRIEDAN

I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewar...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI

I am dead because I lack desire,
I lack desire because I think I possess,
I think I posses...
RENé DAUMAL

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. Bu...
CARL SANDBURG

A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
STUDS TERKEL

All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. ...
LISA GARDNER

I write to find strength.
I write to become the person that hides inside me.
I write to li...
SHANNON L. ALDER

You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was t...
DAVE HAYWOOD

I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simpl...
ZADIE SMITH

It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly in...
GARTH ENNIS

I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who wri...
EDDIE TRUNK

I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.
KATARINA WITT

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that'...
ERIC VAN LUSTBADER

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myse...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to sa...
DAVID BOWIE

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no ...
RICHARD PRICE

I did not know he (Hagen) was known as Hamburger. We could write a book about all the people who hav...
DENNIS MORLOK

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