Comedy Quote by Keegan-Michael Key

I think most people that do comedy write for themselves. I don't think there is any other way you can do it, really. Otherwise…

— David Walliams

Making comedy is a privilege, so you should be doing something no one else can do. That's when it feels like art; it's a…

— Lolly Adefope

I love to write. I'm not necessarily a joke writer, but I think I can find a lot of comedy in humanity, in a…

— Heidi Gardner

It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even the most…

— Mary Oliver

Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing,…

— William Zinsser

When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same…

— Elif Batuman

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something…

— Richard Wilbur

Writing comedy is an exposing thing because you're putting yourself on the line with every joke you write, and although you can't second-guess an…

— Catherine Tate

I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I…

— Kay Ryan

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to…

— Edward Hirsch

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

— Michael Patrick King

Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity.…

— Barbara Holland