When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous.… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that they put advertisements in with your bills now? Like bills aren't distasteful enough, they have to stuff junk… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself,… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I like Valentine's Day. The trouble is the florists and the candy-makers and the card people are all advertising so much, you don't dare… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way,… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I've learned... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
