Actors Quote by Peter Coyote

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York…

— Rachel Kushner

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

— Sandra Brown

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage…

— Sasha Alexander

I got an MFA in creative non-fiction writing at the University of Montana.

— Steven Rinella

I got my master's degree and then started working as a production assistant. I was writing my debut film, the crime drama 'Little Woods,'…

— Nia DaCosta

I grew up in the theater, went to school for directing and playwriting.

— Jerrika Hinton

I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.

— Mark Kurlansky

I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.

— Lauren Miller

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't…

— John Lithgow

I have a bachelors of art in screen writing from Chaplan University in California. I didn't pursue writing because in those years of education,…

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school and college.…

— Thomas Haden Church

I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural…

— Elizabeth Hand