Quotes About Creativity

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.

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.

I changed my headlights the other day. I put in strobe lights instead! Now when I drive at night, it looks like everyone else is standing still.

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.

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

Genius is born-not paid

The internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club owners deciding if they are funny or not.

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.

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

It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart.

All geniuses die young.

A lot of the things I do are the sort of things I think are funny.

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

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.

So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work.

There's never any graffiti in the hotel. Although in the Gents a couple of weeks ago I did see someone had drawn a lady's part. Quite detailed. The guy obviously had talent.

I think it's a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it's very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv.

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

When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.