I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see…

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to…

— Desmond Dekker

I don't want to change the way I write my songs, I like the way I write my songs, so I keep 'em the…

— Exene Cervenka

I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.

— Townes Van Zandt

What I see happening to this country is a neo-caste system.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

That still has to be there. And so, it's kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it'd…

— Danny Elfman

Everybody won’t like everything you write. Some people won’t like anything you write. Get over it.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

— Richard Price

I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to…

— Claire Messud

I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get…

— Randy Newman

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

— William Trevor

I'm lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that's like, 'Write whatever you want to write.' I don't have…

— Troye Sivan

I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like…

— John Steinbeck

That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it…

— Ruth Ozeki

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

— Wally Lamb