With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

— Dan Harmon

Sitcom writing is difficult because it's not just about writing jokes - there's a very fine balance between characters, plot, and comedy, that if…

— Josh Widdicombe

Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in…

— Christine Sneed

I would be writing and trying to write like Joan Didion. Or if I was reading Raymond Carver. You know, strong stylists. But that's…

— David Sedaris

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug…

— George Strait

“The most important piece of writing advice: Have something to say. Whenever I have trouble writing, it’s because I’m trying to write about something…

— GRETCHEN RUBIN

“whatever I was writing, I was always trying to write my way back to you.”

— Lauren Oliver

When I first started out, I was trying to write stories about nurses and lawyers and a lot of people I didn't know anything…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I've never invested myself properly in trying to write stories. When I write lyrics, mostly I write each sentence separately on an index card…

— Jason Schwartzman

I'm trying to write stories that are interesting and enjoyable.

— Arthur Bradford

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

— James Patterson

“My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to…

— Elizabeth Hernandez

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

— Salman Rushdie

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

— Margaret Haddix

I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I'm trying to write…

— Ian Doescher