Books Quote by Morgan Neville

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

— Peter Hammill

I wouldn't sit down and work at writing a song like a novelist or something.

— Roger Taylor

My career as an author began as I saw it as a natural progression from music, as both music and books are a method…

— Tom Fletcher

I was having a nice anonymous little time as a writer. I really was on the writer path. I was sort of minding my…

— LP

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

— Rupert Holmes

That was what I always wanted to do for my whole life, to write music in the service of telling stories and communicating ideas…

— Stephen Schwartz

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd…

— Irvine Welsh

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

— St. Vincent

I was a staff songwriter for Combine Music Publishing in Nashville for seven years. I'd sit around with a groups of friends with a…

— Michael Bacon

I worked hard on making a body of work that takes people on a journey. It was never about making a certain type of…

— Khalid

I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and…

— Ann Powers