Pam Gems Quotes

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

I've always loved writing.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

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

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.

If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.

I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a tape deck and trying to get my mom to type them up - when I was really, really little.

In school, I used to write scripts and all that good stuff.

I think visually... so, even when I'm writing a play, I'm envisioning it.

I love acting, but directing and writing have always been just as important. I started to write so many things when I was even a child. I wrote my first play when I was, like, seven years old. That was me - a writer - for years.

I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me on it. It doesn't really matter. It's the thing I happen to know is my gift.

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.