Acting Quote by Joan Didion

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 don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play…

— Jack Thorne

I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know…

— Ursula Hegi

I generally don't think of prospective actors when I write.

— Misha Green

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act,…

— Paul Muni

I'm an actor, not a writer. I'd be pretty annoyed if the writers tried to come in and hang over my shoulder telling me…

— Shoshannah Stern

Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.

— Ali Wong

Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you're not interpreting someone else's original idea, you can come…

— Michael Beck

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

— William S. Burroughs

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are…

— Peter Hedges

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing…

— Geoff Dyer

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor,…

— David Rakoff