I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't.
Paul Simon

Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
Arthur Golden

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.
Geddy Lee

I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.
Geddy Lee

It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.
Geddy Lee

Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
Geddy Lee

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Tennessee Williams

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
Tennessee Williams

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
Bill Bryson

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.
John Irving

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
John Irving

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Haruki Murakami

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
Alain de Botton

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
Alain de Botton

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.
Amy Winehouse

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.
Amy Winehouse

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
Janet Frame

I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.
George Lopez

So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write.
George Lopez

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Moliere