#wrote

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city. ↗

— John Green

#chicago #city #favorite #first #i

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#actually #first #first of all #interest #moment

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#english #english language #know #language #love

Steve produced Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys and one more. Then he and I wrote a few songs together and became good friends. He was a talented producer. ↗

— Jimmy Griffin

#faster #few #friends #good #good friends

I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#deliberately #great #i #important #last

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#created #i #illusion #literacy #reading

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there. ↗

— Lee Hazlewood

#directed #i #lot #nice #sweden

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#dr #however #johnson #lazy #learned

But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#ahead #bank #bank robbery #before #book

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi. ↗

— Beth Henley

#alone #christmas #class #dime #i