Quotes About Writing

Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin Thighs in 30 Days, for example. Also The Bible.

It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.

I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

It's funny, I write lyrics in a bizarre way - I'm always writing lyrics, mostly when we're traveling or walking around New York, that's when I'm writing most of the stuff.

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am a writer. Look, if it were all good, you'd be paying twice as much for this book.

This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never gotten dressed at all this book would never have been written.

I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy

I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny.

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

The three main leads [in Townies] were Lauren [ Graham] and Jenna [Elfman] and Molly [Ringwald], and then Ron Livingston was on it as well. There was a lot of people to write funny stuff for.

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

Ruth's writing is so joyful, funny and uplifting; it's always a real treat of a read.