Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down…

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what…

— Homer Hickam

Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my…

— David Almond

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

— Steven Moffat

Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about…

— Feist

Don't worry about what anyone else thinks - write what you must.

— Carl Phillips

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

— John Galsworthy

There's still a part of me that thinks I have to write a really good novel. I'm not trying to say I'm not happy…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a…

— Neil Simon

I never write a play with an eye to film.

— Neil Simon

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the…

— Didi Conn

I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened.

— Tom Stoppard

I felt like if I didn't write about what happened to the young men here in the South of America, the same things would…

— Jesmyn Ward

All I really want to write about is what happened just before he left. But if I let myself start with that I might…

— Anonymous

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to…

— R. A. Salvatore

No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.

— Ignazio Silone