[I’ve] never written a thing without a record on.

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say…

— Adam Gopnik

While I am not a journalist, I have, myself, written more than one thing that has been plagiarized in the past.

— Ben Domenech

“I would exchange all that I have written for the next thing.”

— William Stafford

It's a pretty great thing to have a record that at the end of the day you're not totally sick of and you're actually…

— Wesley Schultz

The only thing the record companies put out now is 'Best of,'

— Elton John

You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that…

— Alice Cooper

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it…

— Rihanna

In the two years of preparing material for shows, I realized there are elements that are definitely going to work live, but might not…

— Girl Talk

The great thing about a record is it frees your imagination; it gives your eyes a rest and lets your mind wander. There's the…

— Henry Mancini

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what…

— Chad Smith

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter…

— Justin Townes Earle

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

— Christine McVie

I've always been very grateful that enough people have enjoyed reading what I've written that I've been able to pursue writing professionally.

— Christopher Paolini

I don't think anything you've written is immortal as yet.

— Terence Young

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

— J. J. Abrams