Jed Mercurio Quotes

I went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was good at English literature and became hooked on theatre.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.

I am an internationally produced playwright.

I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well.

If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.

In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most magical and romantic career anyone could have... But I never did write a play.

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.

When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'