#wrote

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.' ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#anger #before #connor #expressing #i

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day. ↗

— Ryan Murphy

#did #get #i #journalist #off

You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big. I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen King went back and wrote extra pages. He's fantastic. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#after #back #big #bigger #book

Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics. ↗

— Jerry Only

#close #danny #days #i #look

Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other. ↗

— Brandon Thomas

#connecting #each #far #favorite #goes

When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon! ↗

— Alexandra Paul

#back #boycott #car #even #i

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#everything #find #great #great truth #hammerstein

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#condemned #hope #most #pardon #solitude

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply. ↗

— David Remnick

#apply #better #could #faster #good

Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously. ↗

— Kerry Thornley

#abraham lincoln #although #letters #lincoln #madman