In his 1980 interview with Playboy, Lennon recalled writing the song:

Miller, in his official biography, recalled writing the song in four minutes in a Phoenix, Arizona hotel room.

When asked to explain, Sirhan said that he did not recall writing the journal.

Dylan recalled writing the song as a deliberate attempt to create an anthem of change for the moment.

Most of it she did orally, although over the past six months she recalled writing a Couple of status reports.

For the record, I do not recall saying or writing anything close to the quote attributed to me.

She recalled obsessively writing "The Icarus Girl" at her parent's computer on weekends, after school and in the middle of the night.

She recalls writing that she would maintain the paper's "core mission" of producing excellent journalism.

He recalled writing 25 pages within a single night in the bar.

The day before, the governor had said that he did could not recall writing similar letters.