Because Quote by Peter Hammill

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

— LP

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

I was always interested in being a writer. Yet, at the time, it somehow seemed more unfeasible to be a writer than a musician.

— Michelle Zauner

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far…

— Alex Flinn

I was always very creative and loved to sing. Music was my entryway into the arts.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the…

— Yungblud

I was always drawn to music. It consumed my thoughts and when I realized I could make people feel something through music that is…

— John Swihart

I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it. I felt that I could write a decent song,…

— Johan Renck

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

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

— Lana Del Rey

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

— Marsha Norman