Actually Quote by Clara Mamet

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should…

— Edmund White

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

— Christopher Meloni

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

— Francine Pascal

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

At the age of 10 I wrote and starred in a play that I took around to local old people's homes.

— Carol Drinkwater

I wrote my first play because I wanted to try directing something, and I couldn't afford the rights - it was an adaptation of…

— Jack Thorne

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

— Patrick White

I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was David Milch…

— Kem Nunn

I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your…

— Sebastian Barry

I had no ghost writers for the books - I wrote every line myself.

— Reinhold Messner

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays

— Beth Henley