I can Quote by Jim Diamond

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

If you have words and want to write music for them, the words hit you with a feeling which you can't really describe in…

— Jim Capaldi

“It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once.”

— Ken Liu

The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I always write music if I'm feeling a bit rubbish and I don't know how to get over or through something.

— Tom Walker

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

— Alison Goldfrapp

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then…

— Alber Elbaz

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All…

— John Connolly

“I have said before that the music is the words and the words are the music It is all there for you to understand…

— Sun Ra

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and…

— Gary Ross

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

— Terry Brooks

“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?”

— Jane Swan