Writing Quotes by Jim Gaffigan

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

— Jim Gaffigan

Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.

— Jim Gaffigan

“I felt I had to write down my observations about you in a book. And also for money, so you could eat…

— Jim Gaffigan

Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness.

— Jim Gaffigan

I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.

— Jim Gaffigan

I wish, in some ways, I was the type of comedian who could do something blistering and topical, but I'm the guy…

— Jim Gaffigan

Why do you have to be out of town to write a postcard? I want a to write a postcard to my…

— Jim Gaffigan

I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the…

— Jim Gaffigan

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view…

— Jim Gaffigan

I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, and…

— Jim Gaffigan

For stand-up comedians that go onstage and get to write and perform and direct, and do all these things, the allure of…

— Jim Gaffigan

Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you…

— Jim Gaffigan

People need to write articles and they need to have angles in them and I'm grateful when people are doing articles, but…

— Jim Gaffigan

It's weird, I love acting and stand-up is a very unique, solitary thing where you are the writer, performer and director. But…

— Jim Gaffigan

I think it's great some hotels provide stationery. Because the first thing I like to do when I get to a hotel…

— Jim Gaffigan

Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you. So I feel…

— Jim Gaffigan

I definitely write about things that are universal, that everyone can identify with. You're supposed to write about things you're passionate about…

— Jim Gaffigan

Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and…

— Jim Gaffigan

There's this message to comedians in particular, that you shouldn't write it, and a television writer should write it. And that's a…

— Jim Gaffigan

Not that I don't think irreverent humor and someone being filthy is funny, I just do what I do. Any comedian would…

— Jim Gaffigan

Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you…

— Jim Gaffigan

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end,…

— Jim Gaffigan

I don't have any delusions. I'm not a novelist - I'm a comedian who writes. I love doing the stand-up and the…

— Jim Gaffigan