Concerned Quote by Dave Barry

Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

— Hallie Ephron

I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a funny line.

— Hannes Holm

Humor is like a rhythm; it's like music. And you throw a couple of extra syllables in, you wreck the beat and you kill…

— Betty White

I have no line. If I think it's funny, it's funny.

— Joan Rivers

In my stand-up, I generally improvise from an outline.

— Jeff Garlin

I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to…

— Taylor Sheridan

I spend a lot of time outlining before I write the first word.

— John Grisham

I never really write the jokes. I just sit down over a week or two and try to figure out what I want to…

— Chris Rock

Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.

— Demetri Martin

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more…

— Ian Frazier

“Outlines can help, but not if you begin with them. If you begin, instead, by writing down everything, by spewing out your ideas as…

— Howard S. Becker