You have to live in order to have something to write about…

I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the…

— John Patrick Shanley

In order to write about life first you must live it.

— Ernest Hemingway

I have to have something that really excites me in order to write about it.

— John Prine

Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint.

— Sara Genn

You have to stop living in order to write.

— Martha Gellhorn

You have to write badly in order to write well.

— William Faulkner

“It is better to write in order to find what you are than to write to find what price others put on you!”

— Daniel Kemp

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

— Grace Paley

“The only thing you really need to be a writer is time. Regular, consistent time, quality time when you're not tired. I write on…

— Jonathan Maas

I'm kind of at the mercy of writers out there. I need a writer out there who wants to write a vehicle for me.…

— Allison Janney

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have…

— Melissa Rosenberg

“There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.”

— M. Kirin

The thing is - do we really need another writer who writes a book every eighteen months, whether the quality is wonderful or not?…

— Junot Diaz

I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected to need…

— Lorin Stein

For me, it [moviemaking] is about social relevance. I want to make a movie that has some type of relevance where as the audience…

— Ric Roman Waugh