I always wanted to write as much as perform.

It's a lot of people who can perform, but they can't write. And it's a lot of people that can write that can't perform.

— Scarface

I just like to write and then perform.

— Bo Burnham

I'm not the sad sack that people might think I am. But I think that if I didn't write and perform, I probably would…

— Sharon Van Etten

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

— George Noory

I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn't hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible identity-based misfortune.…

— Camille Perri

GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were of a…

— Peter Hedges

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

— Imre Kertész

Unfortunately, neither of my grandfathers were alive by the time I decided I wanted to write a book. I wish I had asked them…

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I…

— Ben Schwartz

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what…

— Roseanne Barr

“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.”

— Jim Lewis

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays…

— Tracy K. Smith

I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any…

— Frank Deford

What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve. I wanted…

— Patti Smith

I think that if you look at all of the books that have ever been written about people working in the White House, they're…

— Alyssa Mastromonaco