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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
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've written for the waste basket so often that we've become friends. He writes too, but it's mostly garbage.
— Ryan Lilly
In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.
— Howard Mittelmark
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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