Quotes About Inspiration

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

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.

It's funny how when you're up so late at night for so long your mind can get into these creative places, the kind of creative places that come to you when you're halfway between asleep and awake.

This is one bar you should take home.

It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

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.

If you covered a broom handle with oil and shoved it up my arse, then put me on a trampoline, in a lift, I could write a better song on the walls.

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.

As a young girl, if you do something funny - especially if you're Jewish - someone says, 'Oh, have you seen Gilda Radner?'

In a funny way, the stories keep themselves alive by emerging from one another. I like that.

Genius is born-not paid

I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we get each other in a unique way.

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

All geniuses die young.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.

It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool!

It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.

I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't.

I gravitated toward being a funny guy. I liked the radio comedians. I lived in the Golden Age of radio, and the Golden Age of television came along when I was still in my early teens.

That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

I'm a huge fan of Adam Sandler and used to have Adam Sandler nights when I was younger. And he's so funny on the set.