Always Quote by Francine Pascal

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

— Lena Dunham

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

— Merritt Wever

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 found it was my good fortune to somehow be able to work in these forms that I loved when I was a kid.…

— Jules Feiffer

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

— Grace Cavalieri

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a…

— Lauren Ashley Carter

I was always writing stories, even as a kid. I always wanted to be in the plays and do that sort of thing. Screenwriting…

— Katie Wech

Growing up, I loved to play. Writing was a natural outtake of play. I realize now, having kids, that maybe that's unusual. Living out…

— Anthony Doerr

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'd like to write a play, and I'd like to write a sitcom, but these things take a lot of application. It would be…

— Tim Key

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

— Taiye Selasi

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

— Rita Dove