Back Quote by Frank McCourt

I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally write minor…

— Nat Hentoff

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our…

— Marvin Hamlisch

I started writing music around 20 years old.

— J.I.D

I remember travelling up and down the road, and I kept journals during my whole career, and I was always making notes about things…

— The Ultimate Warrior

I started at 4 or 5 just writing random things down in my notebooks and making up raps. Finding words that rhyme and putting them together.

— Marvin Bagley III

I started putting words together, making rhymes and being witty with the wordplay. I can play a little bit of guitar, and that's something…

— James Paxton

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

— Chris Carmack

I started writing songs as character explorations.

— Noah Reid

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.

— Jill McCorkle

If I'm walking along the street, ideas come. Ideas about things that I'm interested in. I've jotted them down in the past on bits…

— Stephen Hough

I would sit at the organ and just start making up things by myself - I was maybe 7 years old, which was too…

— Ramin Djawadi

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

— Stephen Colbert