Composing is what drives me; it's not the pursuit of fame…

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

— Pablo Picasso

I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for…

— Stephen King

“I do not like anything over four hundred pages or under one hundred fifty pages.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

Writing a book is something I actually feel like I could do. I don't know when that would happen, but I feel like if…

— Paul F. Tompkins

“Your days are like pages, the chapters unread. You have to keep turning your book has no end.”

— John Steinbeck

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it…

— Al Leiter

I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would…

— Alan Ball

“The best thing about books is that you can start wherever you like. The pages are in order, but no one will know if…

— Amy Harmon

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

— Steve Swallow

I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.'

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

Even though, theoretically, being a composer and being a songwriter are the same thing, in my brain, they are completely different. When I am…

— Michael Bacon

I'm the only actor who has done everything, right from anchoring shows to composing and singing songs to theatre to movies.

— Javed Jaffrey

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

— Barbara Kolb

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden,…

— Gary Hamel

Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life…

— John Powell