Quotes About Writing

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good.

I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds.

Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short.

Amy [ Schumer] is a really, really hilarious writer.She's super funny, and I feel like the core of our senses of humor is really similar.

What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.

I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.

I don't make fun of my characters. I just like to laugh and I think people are funny and the world is funny.

The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.

When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.

I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. I've never done any comedy per se.

Yeah, the main goal when I'm writing [movie scripts] is to entertain myself. It's supposed to be funny, but then a funny idea can be turned into something else.

I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps.

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.