I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing…

I like the idea that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing…

— Markus Zusak

I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that words can…

— Markus Zusak

That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's like you…

— Ellen Wittlinger

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

— Victor Hugo

I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter, country melodies…

— Lari White

Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record,…

— Anais Nin

I think it all comes from the same source, really, the writing of music, the writing of words, the playing of music. It's what…

— Stephen Hough

Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another.…

— Charles de Lint

Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.

— Noel Coward

With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner…

— Michael Kiwanuka

LCD is a band about a band writing music about writing music.

— James Murphy

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

— Ryan Tedder

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

— James Brown

What keeps me motivated to create new music is the joy of songwriting. The joy of being creative. The joy of writing a poem…

— Nick Heyward