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I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out. — Mike Birbiglia

I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

If you write well, you don't have to dress funny. — James Dickey

The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work. — Ben Fountain

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. — Joe Satriani

My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams. — Nenia Campbell

I vow to pick up my socks."
"Can I get that in writing? — Cassie Mae

I've written for the waste basket so often that we've become friends. He writes too, but it's mostly garbage. — Ryan Lilly

Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward — J.R. Ward

In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes. — Howard Mittelmark

Writing is all about tents: sometimes you're competent, sometimes you're eloquetent. — Kevin Focke

Err on the side of awesome. — Brandon Sanderson

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it. — John Cleese

Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet! — Sara Sheridan

He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions. — Barbara Kingsolver

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode. — Don Roff

Words are funny things - They are free until you use them. — Darlenne Susan Girard

Remember: blonde, brunette, and redhead are not personality types. — Howard Mittelmark

The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer. — A.E. Poynor

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it. — Kevin James Breaux

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. — Ned Beauman

People are writing post-apocalyptic fiction like there's no tomorrow! — Cassandra Page

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee. — Ryan Lilly

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

Don't just tell me your brother is funny-show me what he says and does and let me decide whether I want to laugh. — Dennis G. Jerz

We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff. — Matt Groening

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing. — Dave Barry

Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story. — Don Roff

It's funny. Writing is a solitary task, but in order to succeed at it, you need other people. — Kim Wright

Someone once said writing and gardening are similar pursuits. Tell you what, I'd have one fucked up garden if that were the case. — Carla H. Krueger

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging. — Bobby Farrelly

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method. — Erin McKeown

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

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences? — Gian-Carlo Rota

I love writing with Adam Lambert. He's really funny and very fun, he's a great friend. — Bonnie McKee

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

Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god. — Dark Jar Tin Zoo

To cut a long story short, I'm a writer. — Carla H. Krueger

The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny. — F Scott Fitzgerald

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. — Julianna Baggott

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement. — Don Roff

Before I could say anything, Jamie began writing giant letters over the words with his index finger.
F-U-C-K Y-O-U.
My sentiments exactly. — Michelle Hodkin

David Mamet's writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how funny it is and how sad it is. — T. R. Knight

Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99. — Ryan Lilly

That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make it funny. — Jason Segel

Did you write the words, or the lyrics? — Bruce Forsyth

I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me. — Zooey Deschanel

I want my online content to be so good that Google's web crawler stops and says "Dayyyum son! — Ryan Lilly

Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that? — William Kittredge

The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more. — Christopher Moore

A good approach is to allow one dream per novel. Then, in the final revision, go back and get rid of that, too. — Howard Mittelmark

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny. — Simon Rich

I'm sure that people who have been tweeting funny things have ended up on writing staffs of a late night show. — Dane Cook

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career. — Alexander Borodin

He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins. — Paula McLain

It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun ... — Trisha Yearwood

When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there. — Amit Kalantri

I don't see much comedy in the Bible, where people are writing about funny people. It's not there. — Bill Cosby

Don't be silly. I'll write you twice a week. — Groucho Marx

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall. — Alan Bennett

I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start ... — Steven Wright

I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was very funny and very true. — Vilmos Zsigmond

I hope we find a cure for every major disease, because I'm tired of walking 5K. I'm pretty sure I don't have to sweat for cancer. I'll write a check. — Daniel Tosh

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

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression? — Anne Frank

Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are. — Alan Alda

I bet there are a lot of women out there who want to sleep with a guy who reads. And being the head of the reading foundation, I'm very well endowed. — Bauvard

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument ... and the occasional bar fight. — J. Michael Straczynski

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. — Noah Baumbach

- If you could describe my son in 3 words, what would you say?
- Sweet. Cute. Funny.
- That could be a description of a puppy she says dryly. — Mary Papas

Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum. — Don Roff

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write? — Rich Mullins

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny. — Roseanne Barr

Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever since. — Anne Elizabeth Moore

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it. — Annie Dillard

Just when I think I have nothing to say, the characters start to speak. Writing is funny like that. — J.D. Barker

Too many writers get stuck in the trap of writing what they think is funny and not considering who they are writing it for. — Robin Thede

I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me! — Zach Galifianakis

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour. — Lincoln Child

Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time. — Nick Hornby

I don't think Aaron Sorkin can write a character who isn't really funny. — Clark Gregg

The thing is, Fallon ... I told you before to lock the door if you wanted me to stay out. Funny thing is ... " I leaned in. "You. Never. Did. — Penelope Douglas

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler

A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three Critiques of Pure Reason in the bush. — Aldous Huxley

I love funny women. I love writing funny women characters. — Michael Patrick King

Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard. — Steven Moffat

Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts. — Daphne Guinness

To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago. — Matthew Perry

Write it down in your own handwriting. — Eugene Ormandy

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published. — Jacques Barzun

I love working with my hands. My writing is rough, my paper bruised with ink stains. — Bauvard

When you're writing what you love, it's the most fun you can have with your clothing still on, unless of course, you write naked. — Don Roff

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it — Art Buchwald

Thought for the day: Twitter ... 140 character limit ... must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers ... — E.A. Bucchianeri

You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead. — Will Rogers

I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny. — Denise Mina

Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny. — Alain De Botton

What is your advice to young writers?"
"Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes. — Charles Bukowski

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something. — Michael Pollan

You can edit crap, but you can't edit nothing. — Anita Bell