Quotes About Writing

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

I write in the mornings once the kids have gone to school, taking my laptop and a coffee to a little writer's room in town where I plant noise-cancelling headphones on my head and get to work.

OTT platforms have opened up a whole new area to explore in terms of content, writing, acting, everything. But I'm not really very comfortable with the four-letter cuss words in all languages, which are now used liberally; I'm a bit old school.

In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.

I just like to write. You can't play basketball 16 hours a day, so it's just working out, working on your body, take a nap, watch some TV, watch some games, and write.

I started as a writer. I didn't play music until late in life.

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.

Jill Eisenstadt is a writer of many admirable gifts. Foremost among them are a sharp eye for people, a playful love of language, and, it's probably safe to assume, nearly boundless energy.

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

I'm more rooted in new plays and new writing.

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen and Shakespeare, but what it is to be a playwright, to be interacting with human beings in the live theater and affect people on such a direct, emotional level.

My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of crazy unproduced plays that he had written. For the one creative writing class I took in my life, I didn't do any writing - I decided that I would plagiarize his terrible play to not fail the class.

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

I love television, and my love for it has made me curious about writing it. It feels like television's moving toward something more novelistic, and that's what I started wanting to do. But I can't say that I'm dying to get notes from a studio. The artistic control that you get as a playwright is worth its weight in gold.

It's a lucky life to be a playwright.

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.

Male playwrights, on the whole, are probably more interested in male characters. They need women characters to be the women in their lives or to be the domestic difficulty.