->''"''VideoGame/AlanWake ''is about a writer, writing about a writer, who is writing about himself and'' '''another fucking writer'''. ''It's like if [[Creator/MCEscher M.C. Escher]] was a writer, and also a douchebag."''
-->-- '''Gabe''', ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' strip [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/06/02/ Your Definition Headquarters]]

->'''“Write what you know”'''
->This is probably the worst piece of advice ever given. This is why we have to suffer through countless variations of plays, TV shows and movies about the trials and tribulations of making ''plays, TV shows and movies''.
-->-- ''[[http://sci-ence.org/sushi/ Sci-ence]]''

->''One of my greatest fears is the day I wake up and discover that I am, in fact, writing [[MarySue two dimensional characters who are little more than a fantasy of what I wish I could be.]] Writing men has always been something of a defence mechanism against this development – and I have a pact with several of my friends that the day I even think about writing a writer as my main character, they’ll come and smash my keyboard.''
-->-- '''[[Creator/CatherineWebb Kate Griffin]]'''

->'''Abed''': I want to tell the story of Jesus from the perspective of a filmmaker exploring the life of Jesus.\\
'''Shirley''': That sounds... very appealing to filmmakers.
-->-- ''Series/{{Community}}'', "[[Recap/CommunityS2E05MessianicMythsAndAncientPeoples Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples]]"

->''“[[Film/PrettyWoman Winsome hookers aside]], [[RomanticComedy rom-com]] leads are often [[RomComJob working in writing-driven professions]]. [[Film/WhenHarryMetSally Sally Albright]] was an eager journalist, though her career immediately became irrelevant. Creator/MegRyan surfaced as a journalist again in ''Film/SleeplessInSeattle'', though this time her job was a necessary plot point. In the pre-Internet days, that occupation gave her the tools to do the stalking that Website/{{Facebook}} affords us today. Creator/JuliaRoberts in ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding'', Creator/JenniferAniston in ''Film/{{Picture Perfect|1997}}'', Creator/DrewBarrymore in ''Film/NeverBeenKissed'', Creator/KateHudson in ''Film/HowToLoseAGuyIn10Days'', and Diane Keaton in ''Film/SomethingsGottaGive'' are all involved in writing pursuits. Creator/SandraBullock in ''Film/TheProposal'', Ryan in ''Film/YouveGotMail'', and Creator/HughGrant in ''Film/NottingHill'' all work with books. In a few of these examples, there’s a [[PlotDevice reporting assignment that propels the plot forward]]. But largely, these jobs are all arbitrary. Bullock could be an executive at any company in any industry, and ''The Proposal'' would be exactly the same. So, is there a secret white paper designating these professions to be pre-approved for rom-com leads? Is there focus group evidence suggesting that a female writer will appeal to the [[TargetAudience target female audience]] while remaining non-threatening to the men who may watch? It is hard to tell what these jobs are meant to indicate about the ladies in rom-coms (other than, perhaps, that they’re the creations of vainglorious writers), but the prevalence of a single field has become short hand for the archetype.”''
-->-- '''Juliet Litman''', “[[http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/know-your-rom-coms-6-tropes-of-the-genres-golden-age/ Know Your Rom-Coms: 6 Tropes of the Genre’s Golden Age]]", ''[[Creator/TheSportsGuy Grantland]]''

->''"The increasing popularity of independently developed video games where the plot is a thinly veiled metaphor for the agony of being a disaffected thirtysomething indie game developer is how you know video games have truly come into their own as an art form."''
-->--'''[[https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/648321756729360385/ David J. Prokopetz]]'''
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