#wrote

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it! ↗

— Johnny Cash

#feel #i #know #make #my own

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#consequences #devotion #distasteful #doctrines #economic

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#day #down #had #head #i

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years. ↗

— Joan Collins

#ago #autobiography #book #every #first

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#passed #sang #she #songs #until

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#eight #i #none #novels #published

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#being #earliest #i #piece #sunday

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

#american flag #another #bizarre #done #fired

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#diaries #english #father #his #norwegian

If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy. ↗

— Dan Deacon

#become #doing #dollars #friends #huge