Composition Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking…

— Israel Horovitz

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.

— Paula Pell

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the…

— Uma Thurman

I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths…

— Ray Bradbury

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.

— Anonymous

I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story... a courtroom drama…

— John Grisham

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

— Lena Dunham

I've been a writer my whole life. I've just never pursued a career in it since I graduated college.

— Scheana Shay

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting.…

— Lennie James

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

— Jess Walter