I am open to writing more, and not just film scripts but…

The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open,…

— Amy Tan

Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing the world…

— Jack Heffron

The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.

— Pema Chodron

I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts…

— Tom Stoppard

To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What is required,…

— Chinua Achebe

There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.

— Miranda Otto

Film scripts are more important for me than the language of the film.

— Atul Kulkarni

Since 'Heroes' started, I've probably had about 15 or 16 film scripts sent to me with Indian characters, and out of those, maybe one was good.

— Sendhil Ramamurthy

I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's…

— Jason Gann

Nowadays I construct my books as if they're film scripts.

— Leon De Winter

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.

— Henri Nouwen

When I'm writing, I am just doing what feels right for me.

— Jed Mercurio

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.

— Francoise Sagan

I've found it really hard to finish writing songs when you're writing on not just your schedule but somebody else's.

— Chris Carmack

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that…

— Celeste Ng