Big Quote by Jesse Armstrong

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

— Alexei Sayle

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

— Hannibal Buress

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

The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.

— Pippa Evans

A lot of times people who write sitcoms for the 18 to 49 crowd think writing for kids is easy. It really isn't. First…

— Dan Schneider

Writing novels is so much more satisfying than writing television.

— Sarah Dunn

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

— Katherine Center

If it's a drama or comedy, it doesn't matter to me. I just want to like the writing.

— Jean Smart

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

— Gish Jen

Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming.

— Steve Martin

With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.

— Aaron Sorkin

Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.

— Ronny Chieng