Always Quote by Laurie Simmons

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

— David Allan Coe

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their…

— Criss Jami

Once I release a song, it's not just about me or the people... I write about. They're my stories, but they're not really mine…

— Jens Lekman

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 am the kind of songwriter to where I don't have to have experienced it firsthand to write about it.

— Lainey Wilson

Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way.…

— Jack Kirby

While I write for myself, I also write for other artists too.

— Jay Sean

I've been a writer my whole life.

— Scheana Shay

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

— Mat Kearney

I always wrote for myself. I figured I'm not that different from other people. If there's a story I like a lot, there's got…

— Stan Lee

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved…

— Gail Carson Levine

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

— John Ashbery