I want to direct in Denmark. I married a writer; my best…

I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.

— Siri Hustvedt

I think the one reason that writers marry other writers - one of the reasons that I married another writer - was, I fell…

— Heidi Julavits

I like being married to another writer. You get to trade ideas. You get to talk shop. You get to complain. You get to…

— Elaine Equi

Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend…

— Tom Stoppard

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of…

— Lawrence Block

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. Sometimes directors feel a script needs…

— Tom Stoppard

Night is a very good and very close friend of a writer!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

— Markus Zusak

I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

— Nick Flynn

In my home country, which is one of the oldest kingdoms in the world, you're born with the title. You don't get elected. I…

— Pilou Asbaek

I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.

— Pilou Asbaek

My mother wanted me to be a writer, which I have ended up taking a long road round to.

— Mick Foley

I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so…

— Amiri Baraka

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

— Lady Colin Campbell

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish…

— Chang-Rae Lee