Quotes / Write Who You Know

Film

Dr. Manners: Mr. Halliday, it's painfully obvious to me, and to the whole population of this district, that the character of Dr. Adam Gay is intended to represent me.

Edward: That hadn't occurred to me.

— Please Turn Over

Western Animation

"Good writers write what they know. Writing is vulnerable. Writing is sharing. This story is a part of you, and you shouldn't hold back any beautiful part of yourself.

—Kat, Craig of the Creek, Season 4 "Fire and Ice"

Lisa: Isn't your book a little hard on dad?
Marge: What do you mean? My book is set in whaling times.
Lisa: "Captain Mordecai stared at the shop window full of powdered blowholes. 'Mmm, blowholes,' he drooled."

— The Simpsons, "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife"

Real Life

"He's a man whose wife leaves him because he talks in one-liners. And Steven Moffat's wife had just left him, because he talks in one-liners."

— Robert Bathurst on Joking Apart

"It’s the standard writer line, but all the characters are me. It’s a book about wanting to be a creator, and being a creator, and everything in between. It’s a dialogue between all these experiences, and everything that happened along the way. So, yes, it’s autobiographical, but – as all my autobiographical stuff – it’s pretty heavily autocritical."

—Kieron Gillen on The Wicked + The Divine

I'm bi! I want to write a bi character, dammit!

— Dana Terrace on The Owl House

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