Blood Quote by Sebastian Barry

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

— Isabel Allende

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

— Lena Dunham

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels.…

— Ernest Gaines

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied…

— Wallace Shawn

I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a…

— Suzanne Collins

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

— St. Vincent

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite…

— Bruce Springsteen

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

— Isabel Allende

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for…

— Hilary Duff