Band Quote by Lou Reed

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop -…

— Idina Menzel

I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.

— Mat Kearney

In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but…

— Meg Cabot

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great…

— Carlisle Floyd

Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love literature and…

— Robert Greene

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

— Peter Hammill

I was a piano performance major at USC. I left before I graduated because I realized at some point I wasn't going to be…

— James Newton Howard

I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

— Ira Glass

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all.…

— Bruce Cockburn

I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I…

— Gary Cherone