Air Quote by Woody Allen

I wrote for television some, animation. Batman the Animated Series, Superman the Animated Series, Son of Batman, things of that nature were made and…

— Joe R. Lansdale

We all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television.

— Norman Lear

Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.

— Andrea Gibson

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.

— Hortense Calisher

Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something.

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Sandra Brown

I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.

— Vera Nazarian

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote…

— Octavia Butler

I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything…

— Jennifer Egan

“I stretched out on the bed and slept. It was twilight when I awakened and turned on the light. I felt better, no longer…

— John Fante

I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write…

— Jennifer Egan

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler