Richard Greenberg Quotes

A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

I never wanted to be a playwright.

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

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.

Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my day job. I didn't believe I'd actually get to do it for a living.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'

I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is saying. But as I got older, I got into college and became more aware that writing is another option, and I started getting into it, too.

I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.

I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations.

I became a children's author by accident.

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be what I do. It's not a profession that has some sort of clear career track, like, 'This is what you do to be a playwright.'

I've wanted to be a writer since I was, like, 10.

I wasn't a frustrated writer who really wanted to act or a frustrated writer who really wanted to direct. I was really happy writing screenplays, and there's a lot of people who just do that - they're screenwriters.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.