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I wrote it in longhand as an 11-year-old girl and so all my misspelled words, they'll think I did it on purpose.


Fannie Flagg

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I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.
ALAN FURST ... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t...
DEYTH BANGER I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.
SARA PARETSKY I made a movie when I was 15 years old with all my friends. This is when IMDb was a little more lax ...
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called ...
FLORENCE WELCH This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS I was a skinny 11-year-old softball player when I wrote
away for exercise equipment for women.
BETTY WEIDER Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-list...
THOMAS HARRIS I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it ...
VANESSA PARADIS I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't eve...
EDAN LEPUCKI I could compose on white sheets, in longhand, but it would be an added handicap. . . .
WILLIAM STYRON I did this scene in 'Lars and the Real Girl' where I was in a room full of old ladies who we...
RYAN GOSLING I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I d...
LARRY BISHOP I had a little 6-year-old girl come up and dump her piggy bank in my boot so I was, I had tears in m...
STEVE SURACE I told Mr. Fitzgerald, I simply could not recall where that came from, when I wrote it or why the na...
JUDITH MILLER It was really hard for my dad psychologically. That's one of the reasons why he stayed an 11-year-ol...
JOE CLOKEY I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. ...
KYLE DUNNIGAN I began playing the flute during the summer before my sixth grade year when I was 11 years old, and ...
AMBER CUNNINGHAM I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolu...
MAYIM BIALIK Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so...
GARY F EVANS... Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin.
JENNIFER SCHMIDT He said in the letter, um, I want a girl from Lincoln-Hancock School, and he wrote, a 6 or 7-year-ol...
JOELLEN DELLAMANO Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-of...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Sometimes do I think it was unjust? Yeah, but I can think about it all I want - it (isn't) going to ...
MARK ROMAN First of all, it is based on sound physical principles, and secondly, it finally answers the 150-yea...
DAVID HATHAWAY I have an older brother and older sister. My older sister is the girliest girl on the planet, so I j...
AJ LEE Underneath this tired, middle-aged exterior, I'm an 11 year old kid.
HENRY SELICK My musical taste is like a 16-year-old girl's when it comes to working out - Rihanna, Black Eyed...
JESSICA CAPSHAW As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.
LAURA DEKKER When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
BOB GELDOF When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shoppi...
DITA VON TEESE But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to...
HARRIET ANN JACOBS I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this i...
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG As the bomb fell over Hiroshima and exploded, we saw an entire city disappear. I wrote in my log the...
CAPT ROBERT LEWIS I changed my putter, went rummaging around in the garage and pulled the old one out as I felt a chan...
MARK ROE I changed my putter, went rummaging around in the garage and pulled the old one out as I felt a chan...
MARK ROE Once upon a time there was an eighteen-year-old girl who dragged her butt out of bed and hauled it a...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON She had nightmares as a little girl and she was told to just forget about (the sinking). It crushed ...
JOAN RANDALL If you tell an 11-year-old something on a constant basis every day, every day, eventually you're goi...
CAROL WILLIAMS I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether th...
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought com...
ALBERT EINSTEIN At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, t...
ERIKA CHRISTENSEN I wanted to get away from big, expensive network projects, ... so I moved to New York and I did noth...
ANDY BOROWITZ I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so...
JOYCE CAROL OATES I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was go...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
FRANZ KAFKA I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote thing...
CARRIE FISHER You want to be excited about what you're doing. So whenever I get tired, I think, 'Would ten...
ADAM DEVINE I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a jo...
ZOE KAZAN I’ve got the word of an eight-year-old girl, an old fairytale I used to know, and a shred of faith...
EMORY R. FRIE 'The Danish Girl' was published in 2000. Then it, too, would disappear, as most books do. It...
DAVID EBERSHOFF Only the old people write me in longhand!
BRETT SOMERS I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
JEFFREY ARCHER The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L...
JOHN C. MAXWELL The man or woman that believes their success soley rests on their actions is sorely mistaken.
JOHN LEACH I'm really glad we came. My 11-year-old son heard about it and he said he really wanted to go. This ...
LORI ROBINSON I write all my own songs. Everything I did on 'The X Factor' was basically original, except ...
ASTRO I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I wa...
RAE CARSON Risks can lead to great victories or defeats. Even if you are defeated, the lesson will be valuable ...
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA ...Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all...! Romans 11:11
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I just always knew I wanted to be an actor. I gave my Emmy acceptance speech when I was 11. But, I w...
AZITA GHANIZADA I had my first kiss when I was 11, but I think I've blocked it out of my mind because it was so ...
NIALL HORAN Never in my wildest dreams or fantasies did I think I would be running an Internet company, ... I wa...
JOE GALLI I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads ...
SARA SHEPARD My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book...
RICK YANCEY For some reason I just started writing and out came this play. It's a series of monologs. All of the...
DANIEL POUND a 33-year-old man wrote that in a matter of weeks. A 67-year-old man can't come back to it.
JOHN GUARE When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own'...
SAMANTHA BARKS The very first time I ever heard anything of mine on the radio, I was in New Jersey, and I was in my...
FRANKIE VALLI When I came to the United States, I appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show as a 13-year-old, and I played ...
ITZHAK PERLMAN I can't find who wrote this (it was't me)but I think it is great.

Before I was your moth...
BETH LYON BARNETT I started doing some acoustic things. When my character was out at sea on a tanker, running his flee...
JACK WAGNER She wrote in wonderful longhand. We helped shape it a little. She had a natural gift, a sense of rec...
JUDITH JONES I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely sur...
TERRI WINDLING I think that I am a collaborative fascist. With Natalie it was different, she was only 11-years-old ...
LUC BESSON I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that th...
BJORN LOMBORG It's a remarkable feeling, but I don't think it has really set in yet. To be top kennel at Wheeling ...
MARCY HENRY I don't even think of it as a strategy. It's me in my element; it's my forte. Me being w...
STORMZY I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used s...
DEMETRI MARTIN I am just building off what I did last year. I am trying to improve little by little. I am doing sim...
ANDREW ROCK Last time I traveled, I traveled with my 2-year-old and my 3-year-old, and they actually did a searc...
MICHELLE GREEN I appreciate the fact that you have one redeeming quality, Jack, but that is all it is. Just a hint ...
K.A. LINDE I used to think it utterly normal that I suffered from “suicidal ideation” on an almost daily ba...
STEPHEN FRY Go away. I'm all right.
, LAST WORDS Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then ...
JACK HANDY I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name m...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name m...
GEN. WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspel...
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN My father, whose work I adore... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, th...
JAMIE WYETH My worst memory is of my first dance lesson as a 14-year old in Prague. My mother put me in this sil...
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.
MAE WEST I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a gre...
RALPH MACCHIO I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'
DOLLY PARTON That's all it would take to prevent the 9/11 attacks from happening? I don't think so.
CARLA MARTIN I wanted the hands to reach out to help the people who were hurt in the hurricane, ... And I wrote d...
COLIN WILSON I do mourn my characters. I wrote an essay once where I was sure that far back in a marsh there was ...
JIM HARRISON Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how ...
RACHEL HUNTER I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but sti...
OKKY MADASARI Cora blamed the people who wrote it down. People always got things wrong, on purpose as much as by a...
COLSON WHITEHEAD When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to fo...
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