#wrote

I wrote my first play when I was eight. ↗

— Pam Gems

#first #i #play #wrote

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote. ↗

— Rex Stout

#better #ever #glass #hemingway #key

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#energy #i #merely #pout #some

This is my skin. This is not your skin, yet you are still under it. ↗

— Iain Thomas

#intimacy #love #skin #love

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#because #confusion #contrary #earlier #enjoys

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#first #i #line #orchestra #people

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#books #i #i write #idea #imagination

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#first #i #landing #mars #stories

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. ↗

— Warren Buffett

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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