As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers…

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a…

— Eddy Arnold

Food becomes very secondary when you're trying to write songs, funnily enough. I think a good snack and a good tea break when you've…

— Griff

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

— Sondre Lerche

People were trying to write songs to knock Lil Nas X off his perch; I didn't try to do that.

— Tones and I

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

— Steve Forbert

It's hard when people are expecting things from you, and all you're trying to do is write songs that you like for yourself.

— Ryan Ross

I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play in a…

— Tim Rutili

When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the…

— Lenny Kravitz

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

— Orson Scott Card

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

— Anonymous

“Writers create impressions that inspire, stir emotions, evoke questions and sprinkle seeds of awe.”

— C. Toni Graham

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they…

— Garry Trudeau

Traditionally games never used professional writers to create their narrative, so there's definitely a residual feeling that hiring a proper writer is somewhat of…

— Rhianna Pratchett

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify…

— Jorge Luis Borges