Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song. — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge. — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge. — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
I want to write a story for people where they finish it, and it sticks with them. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
I can't read, I don't know how to write, my whole life has been one big fight. — Albert King Copy Share Image
When I was working on 'Freddie,' I had been trying to write it on a computer for many, many years, but that… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I'm glad that in this sport you can write your own stories, and you don't have to worry about what other people… — Robbie Lawler Copy Share Image
I'd say 99 per cent of the time I write on my own, just with my guitar, and then it's trying to… — Passenger Copy Share Image
If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In a way, there's nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't know how to write jokes from the point of view of a six-foot-two guy. So, I'll always talk about it,… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
Everyone eventually winds up writing about themselves - the problem is finding the best way to go about it. To write about… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I… — Dexter Holland Copy Share Image
“It's a good thing to read a lot. It's a good thing to write a lot. The best thing to do is… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,'… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything… — James Frey Copy Share Image
That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep… — Sally Schneider Copy Share Image
The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free. — Frank Murphy Copy Share Image
If you are my friend and say to me, "Please don't write about this," I won't. — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require. — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
My mum was very interested in art and liked to write, and my dad was a hobbyist photographer. — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write. — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I consider myself a bit of a comedian. I write a lot of humorous songs. — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write. — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
“I read as many novels as you do. Maybe more. I'm just not sure I want to write one.” — Lenore Appelhans Copy Share Image
I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody. — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
