After Michelangelo died, someone found in his studio a piece of paper on which he had written a note to his apprentice, in the handwriting of his old age: "Draw, Antonio, draw, Antonio, draw and do not waste time."

Writing and music.

Aimee Bender, Alexandre Dumas, Allen Ginsberg, Andre Dubus, Ann Beattie, Anne Carson, Anne Sexton, Annie Dillard, Annie Proulx, Arthur Rimbaud, Barbara Kingsolver, Bharati Mukherjee, Brad Watson, Brenda Miller, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Baxter, Charles Dickens, Dan Chaon, Dan Rhodes, David Foster Wallace, David Leavitt, David Schickler, Dinty Moore, Edwidge Danticat, e.e. cummings, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Eudora Welty, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Connor, Frank Conroy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gish Jen, Henri Troyat, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, James Baldwin, James Joyce, Jane Austen, Janet Frame, Jennifer Lash, Jhumpa Lahiri, Joan Didion, John Barth, John Cheever, John Fowles, John Keats, Jose Saramago, Joyce Carol Oates, Junot Diaz, Katharine Haake, Langston Hughes, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Louise Erdrich, Melissa Pritchard, Michael Chabon, Michael Ondaatje, Pablo Neruda, Paul Bowles, Paul Verlaine, Philip Roth, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Raymond Carver, Richard Hugo, Richard Russo, Richard Wright, Rick Moody, Robert Bly, Robert Graves, Sandra Cisneros, Saul Bellow, Scott Russell Sanders, Sherman Alexie, Simone de Beauvoir, Steve Martin, Sylvia Plath, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Ted Kooser, Theodore Roethke, Tim O'Brien, Tobias Wolff, Toni Morrison, Umberto Eco, Victor Hugo, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, W.G. Sebald, W.H. Auden, Walt Whitman, William Blake, William Butler Yeats, William Carlos Williams, William Faulkner, Zadie Smith