Couple Quote by Lewis Black

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

— John Waters

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

— Eliot Porter

The big, fun, ambitious ideas tend to come out of the frustration of talking for too long about the smaller, weaselly ones.

— Derren Brown

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more…

— Jess Walter

I like my jokes to be built on a foundation of ideas, or at least smart observations.

— George Carlin

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

— Elizabeth Moon

I've got foundation jokes, the ones that got me where I am, so everything I do just builds on top of that.

— Gabriel Iglesias

Some stories we know well and some we learn as we go. Being able to shape and share these stories into new perspectives and…

— Garth Kravits

“A good plot is like a well-crafted puzzle. Each piece is vital to the bigger picture, connecting to each other to tell the larger…

— Janice Hardy

Stuff starts to feel stale comedically when you're just rehashing things, so putting together a writers' room where the majority is made up of…

— Nahnatchka Khan

I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.

— Jill Abramson

So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of…

— Peter Carey