I know I should be able to find a story in anything. Good…

If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing is the…

— Robert Mark Kamen

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the…

— Uma Thurman

I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.

— David Hare

“When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won't please everybody, but it doesn't fall…

— Ronald P. Chavez

You can only really write about what you know about.

— John Singleton

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

— Lois Lowry

I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe.

— Taylor Momsen

Write about what you know, that's what I say.

— Josh Widdicombe

A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the project down…

— Steven Pressfield

From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest…

— Jason Reitman

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without…

— Syd Field

If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

— Samuel Fuller

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

— Ayn Rand

Though 'Moneyball' had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders.

— Brad Pitt

My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said…

— Nora Ephron