High Quote by Frank Deford

I've always been a writer. I've always done writing or spoken-word, hip-hop stuff with my friends.

— Mat Kearney

For a while, I thought I would maybe be a writer. But with music, I was such a nerd; I was really obsessive about…

— Perfume Genius

I've always known I could write. I have an ear for production and melody. It was just that, in those early years, I let…

— Belinda Carlisle

We had musical instruments at home, so when I wasn't in school, I would sing and write all the time.

— Griff

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.

— Mick Ronson

I always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn't feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that.

— Lucy Dacus

I started writting songs when I was really little because there were things I could say through songs that I couldn't verbalize any other…

— Alanis Morissette

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to…

— Deborah Levy

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I…

— Frank Ocean

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

— Merritt Wever

I think I started writing because no one had ever told me you can write about the things you know in a musical. They…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble; I thought of it as that.…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter