I Read What I Thought I Wrote Quotes

#1. I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.

Edward Hirsch

#2. No, brother-in-law, you have passed a death sentence on your people and on your Queen, your wife, the woman you have vowed to protect. And do not think your child will escape me. I will search all eternity - I will never cease until the child of my sister dies.

Darren Simon

#3. If you read more, worked harder, thought things through smartly, or wrote or argued better than other people, you won.

James Rebanks

#4. I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.

Mitch Hedberg

#5. Xavier Gens is probably the busiest filmmaker that I know.

Michael Eklund

#6. I wanted someone, somewhere, whom I might never meet, to read a sentence I wrote and think, I thought I was the only one who felt that way.

Lauren DeStefano

#7. I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

Carol Windley

#8. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid
what will compare with it?

Herman Melville

#9. When I was in high school, I read the whole thing about Don King and he had this quote that said, "Set yourself on fire and the world will pay to watch you burn." I thought that was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard and I wrote it on my wall.

Anthony Mackie

#10. 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

#11. I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.

Caleb Johnson

#12. That's why I read, as a stranger,
My being as if it were pages.
Not knowing what will come
And forgetting what has passed,
I note in the margin of my reading
What I thought I felt.
Rereading, I wonder: "Was that me?"
God knows, because he wrote it.

Fernando Pessoa

#13. If I never meet you
In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
Then my life
Will be yours

James Jones

#14. When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

Alan King

#15. I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

Gayle Forman

#16. I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.

Walter Isaacson

#17. During the sleepless hours of the night
a thought came to me that seemed important. I got up in the dark and wrote it down. In the morning I read: 'I went looking for loneliness. But it found me.

Anna Kamienska

#18. He thought. He wrote. He read. He ran and drank milk and concrete. He was cut into two. He bled. He died.

Patrick Downes

#19. Just stay with me. Protect me, like you said you would.

Marissa Meyer

#20. And Jack, who felt like he was on the cusp of being able to read minds and thought it would be all right if Luce wrote him down for that. ("I sense that you're okay with that, am I right?" He made a gun out of his fingers and clicked his tongue.)

Lauren Kate

#21. I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

Fred Saberhagen

#22. There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)

Patrick Carman

#23. They were American people and there was a kind of dirty, compelling romance about them whenever they were in groups - never

Stephen King