Background Quote by Edward Rutherfurd

I started writing music in a French way: more focused on lyrics than melody.

— Benjamin Clementine

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.

— Jeff VanderMeer

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I…

— Tom Glazer

Music is an important part of my writing process.

— Peter James

I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.

— Haruki Murakami

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

— St. Vincent

Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.

— Bryce Dessner

When I was first writing, I was writing mostly about sporting events, which was really what my assignments were. I was working on the…

— John Tesh

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.

— Irvine Welsh

Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók -…

— James Ellroy

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.

— Ansel Elgort