Audience Quote by Bob Newhart

I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.

— Jane Lynch

I'm always curious about other writers' routines.

— Jesmyn Ward

I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down and kind…

— Sarah Silverman

You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across…

— Joan Didion

You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across…

— Joan Didion

I don't practice or write stuff down - everything I do onstage was just made up before I went on.

— Don Rickles

You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all…

— Colm Toibin

I write and rewrite and memorize, and then inject my performance with improvising and spontaneity, because if something feels too rehearsed, it's not going…

— Andy Daly

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

— Jess Walter

I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

— Patton Oswalt

My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say…

— Douglas Coupland