First Quote by Roseanne Barr

When I met Judd Apatow, he told me I should start writing screenplays. They'd be really bad at first, but the more I did…

— Bill Hader

It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million years ago…

— Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there.

— Judd Apatow

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to…

— Michael Connelly

Joss Whedon writes beautiful drama. His sensitivity and his sense of drama and scenes are pretty exceptional. There's no one else writing like him,…

— Olivia Williams

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested…

— Jonathan Dee

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a…

— Ben Hecht

I made a very good living as a bad writer. I wrote a lot of comedies, 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' while all my…

— Paul Haggis

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

Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find…

— Dinaw Mengestu

It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

— Giancarlo Esposito

There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could…

— Rex Stout