Books Quote by Richard Linklater

As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.

— Damien Chazelle

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

— Jerrika Hinton

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

— Christopher Durang

I wanted to be a playwright in college. That's what I was interested in and that's what I was moving toward, and then I…

— Greta Gerwig

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing…

— Jim Jarmusch

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

— Taiye Selasi

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted…

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

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

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I…

— Meg Cabot

I wanted to do films because I loved certain stories.

— Nushrat Bharucha

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few…

— Kurt Busiek