Books Quote by Laura van den Berg

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

— Aulis Sallinen

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all…

— Oliver Sacks

Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is…

— Bill Callahan

Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when…

— Barry Hannah

So much of the effort that goes into writing prose for me is about making sentences that capture the music that I'm hearing in…

— Jonathan Lethem

I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.

— Rob Roberge

I've always said that music is like literature.

— Jose Carreras

I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.

— Paul Lansky

When you're scoring music for a film, it has to be interwoven with the narrative, it has to reflect the mood, the ethos.

— Zoya Akhtar

I believe that writing on music is experienced inside your head, is not a physically present in the world, it has a different kind…

— Robert Christgau

“Too often we sit back and speak platitudes of the nitty-gritty bits of writing; the editing, the story structure, the verbal sparring vs. banter,…

— Rachel Heffington

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