Quotes About Writing

You do movies because you love movies and you write music because you love writing music, and sometimes there's this magic combination.

There's an attitude that I have where I bring the art to the table and the writer brings the writing to the table, but neither of us brings the story to the table. The story is something that only happens with the combination of both of us.

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

I have admiration for people who can do it well - the guys who wrote 'Cheers' and 'Frasier.' They created sort of a blissful comedic universe.

Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming.

For me, I wanted to write a book about getting into comedy. That's what I wanted to write.

I have to say that my background in comedy, of performing live, has been such a great foundation for what we do now on camera. I really value having that kind of experience. Because when you're doing comedy shows you're writing your own material and trying it out on people and you know people find funny and don't.

I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.

I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates 'me' from my work in a way that I find comforting.

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

If I do foray more into writing comic books, I definitely would hope that my acceptance is based more on my ability to write than my ability to schmooze my way in as a celebrity.

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

I'd hate to be writing 'Adventure Time' comics and not be excited about it.

I actually come from comics, and I'm big on comics. I was reading 'Walking Dead' from the beginning. Then just being on the show, I was really lucky to work on episodes like 'Pretty Much Dead Already' and 'Clear.' I worked a lot on episodes that I didn't write.

I love writing comics too much.

I didn't know how to write comics. I had to teach myself.

Comics writing is for your artist. It's not for the general reader; it's for the artist. So I love writing scripts for artists.

Writing 'Dog Stars' was coming home. My spirit just sang. It's what I wanted to do my whole life.

Writing is something I should have done more of, it's a form of coming home.