Department Quote by William Monahan

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education.…

— John Lahr

In TV, writers generally are the show runners, and they have enormous control over everything. In feature films, very often the writer will turn…

— Terence Winter

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the…

— Uma Thurman

There are some writers who also enjoy being authors, and are good at it as well. There is nothing performative about writing, but there…

— Hanya Yanagihara

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

— Elmore Leonard

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside…

— Marc Guggenheim

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

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

— Anton Chekhov

You have to fire yourself as the writer when you direct something you've written. You have to fire yourself, or else you get precious…

— Joel Schumacher

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down…

— Tracy Letts