Quotes About Writing

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

My first gig ever was writing looplines for a movie that had already been made. You know, writing lines over somebody's back to explain something, to help make a connection, to add a joke, or to just add babble because the people are in frame and should be saying something.

I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject.

If you write a novel where war is nothing but hell and no one experiences excitement or cracks a dark joke, then you're not actually admitting the full experience.

I often joke that I could write 'War and Peace' and make it sound like Geri Halliwell wrote it.

I wouldn't call the Joker exactly easy to write.

If you're a comedian, you can only really write jokes for about an hour a day, so you've got a lot of time to fill.

I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.

Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.

You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

I could never sit down and write jokes.

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes.

I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes.

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

The thing that's frustrating about improv is that even if you have the best show in the world, it's over when it's over. You get to build stand-up - I really like that aspect of it. I like writing jokes, and you don't get to do that in improv.

We only ever write jokes that amuse us.

I've never sat down and written jokes. I wouldn't know how to.

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

Comedians who aren't screenwriters are telling jokes that they themselves think are funny. They're expressing their own view of what they think funny is.