#wrote

I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not gonna sing them just because I wrote them. I've gotta find the best songs to make the best record I can. ↗

— George Strait

#because #best #find #gonna #gotta

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm. ↗

— Gay Talese

#being #day #get #his #hope

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#demand #made #many #read #reason

So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream 'I'm not going to die today!' with our music playing - that was the last thing on my mind when I wrote the song. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#die #going #good #good thing #i

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic. ↗

— June Jordan

#arabic #arabs #being #country #go

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#always #am #book #call #even

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#crappy #doing #early #encouraged #first

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#head #i #old #wrote #years

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process. ↗

— Anita Desai

#family #got #i #more #much

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#censorship #cervantes #don quixote #good #had