Books Quote by James Merrill

I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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

— Taiye Selasi

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

— Christopher Meloni

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

— Rita Dove

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 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 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'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

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

— Beth Henley

I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.

— Octavia E. Butler

When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still like a…

— Edward Albee