It can be really powerful to write something when you're…

It can be really powerful to write something when youre sad.

— Kathryn Stockett

I've never felt powerful enough to write a true political novel, or deeply knowledgeable enough to draw a character like, say, Tolstoy's Prince Kutuzov.

— Mona Simpson

I get lots of requests from people to write sad songs, and I'm like, 'No, that's rubbish patter.'

— Lewis Capaldi

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

— Anonymous

A lot of people in the music business are a bit doom and gloom, People say it's probably easier to write sad songs than…

— Amy Macdonald

I don't count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. That is when I start counting, because then it really counts.…

— Muhammad Ali

I always wanted to write a sad song that sounds happy. I think everyone can relate to this emotion.

— Kirstin Maldonado

When I first read 'At Freddie's', I was struggling with my own writing, particularly with how to write about a sad subject - the…

— Ben Dolnick

I'd hate to be a writer forever and never perform, and I'd hate to perform and not write. I get sad if time has…

— Kristen Schaal

It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.

— Eric Bachmann

“Sad Things Why do you write sad things? he asked. When I am here, when I love you. Because someday , in one way…

— Lang Leav

I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want…

— Alan Jackson

If I write a sad song, at the end it's gotta be like, 'Dude, things are looking up!'

— Andy Grammer

I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad…

— Jain

Write your sad times in sand and your good times on a stone

— Anonymous