Complicated Quote by Justin Simien

I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and…

— Steven Wright

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant…

— Ann Beattie

Creating jokes, sometimes it's the experience of life and it's also practice and most of the time writers' help me.

— Sunil Grover

There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to talk myself…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

— Jeff Lindsay

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

I'm a storyteller in a joke format. I tell stories, I try to have a lot of jokes constantly through that story. I never…

— Nate Bargatze

The thing I try to get across to the writers - and I do a lot of writing, too - is that when I…

— Chris Rock

I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for a while…

— Jeff Kinney

I think my ability to joke and laugh about things is because I'm forced to. I've been through a lot of things in my…

— Jonathan Van Ness

I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of the narrative,…

— Jeff Kinney

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots…

— Steven Moffat