Great Quote by Jeff VanderMeer

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets…

— Dani Shapiro

It is, writing music is like therapy for me, it's like writing everything down in a diary. It's my way of getting all my…

— Megan McKenna

I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.

— Jeff VanderMeer

Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling.

— Erika M. Anderson

Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not…

— Tony Grisoni

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to…

— Erik Larson

I always listen to music when I write! I basically make a playlist for every essay; sometimes it's just one song, or three songs,…

— Melissa Febos

Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.

— Spike Jonze

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

— Kris Allen

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

— Lisa Marie Presley

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

— Carrie Brownstein

I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.

— Mary Roach