Book signings Quote by Julian Barnes

“Cinema is a literature of images. Theatre is a literature of ideas. If you go twenty seconds without dialogue on the stage, you’ve had…

— Peter Glenville

“What is the stage? It's a place, baby, you know, where people play at being serious, a place where they act comedies. We've got…

— Luigi Pirandello

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

— Rob Lowe

“We are all acting on stage and the world is our audience.”

— Antonello Fiore

“Instead of saying, ‘The writing in this scene isn’t good enough,’ you say, ‘Don’t you want people to walk out of the theater and…

— Ed Catmull

“There are things I've given up on Like recording funny answering machine messages. It's part of growing older And the human race as a…

— David Berman

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

I had to write a comedy set and film a show at the same time. And it's the second time I've been up on…

— Zach Anner

“I write across several genres. I’m a slut for words. I can’t keep it in my literary pants.”

— Fierce Dolan

Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.

— Marc Maron

“What do you suspect from a society that gets all its news from late-night comedy shows?”

— Brian Michael Bendis