Zoe Kazan Writing Quotations

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

I think from my earliest childhood, I liked to tell stories, put on plays and write things. It's funny to think of it as an "artistic bug" because I didn't necessarily want to be an artist. It's just who I was and how I communicate.