After Quote by Lev Grossman

I handwrite out all my lines. I like to see my handwriting, and I like to keep my notes over time.

— George Eads

I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my…

— Bill Nighy

I'm a planner, an organizer. I write things down because you can visually check them off and see progress. Writing things down is a…

— Will Grier

When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page…

— Nicole Blackman

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

— Thomas Perry

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.

— Damien Chazelle

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them…

— Sigrid Undset

I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay…

— Miguel Syjuco

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

— Tony Gilroy

I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.

— Nancy Kerrigan

At 19, while studying at St Xavier's College and majoring in literature and sociology, I got my first job as a copywriter. It was…

— Zoya Akhtar

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

— Simon Van Booy