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I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

— Jeff Daniels

I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when…

— Jake M. Johnson

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

— Tom Perrotta

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

Although I’ve played a wide variety of roles, I’ve never had the chance to act in a story written specially for me. It’s a…

— Grace Kelly

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

— Jon Krakauer

I was always obsessed with being a writer of some sort.

— David Droga

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

— Anna Deavere Smith

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

— David Hare

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and…

— David Suchet

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George

I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel to novel,…

— Henry Rollins