California Quote by Don Felder

I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through…

— Amanda McBroom

When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn't get any... I became a little isolated, a…

— Clark Gregg

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

— Sarah Waters

I became a writer in spite of my environments.

— Robert E. Howard

Writing was something I always did but that turned into singing and rapping. That something that came out of my writing.

— Dreezy

The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and…

— Hans Zimmer

I made a very good living as a bad writer. I wrote a lot of comedies, 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' while all my…

— Paul Haggis

I wrote one called 'The No Hotel.' I got inspired in 1989 while I was on a trip down to Brazil, and I didn't…

— Gordon Lightfoot

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong

I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is…

— Sandra Cisneros

The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and…

— Dorianne Laux