Down and Quote by Steven Wright

I have this natural thing in my head that when I sit down to write something serious, I tend to make jokes. I can't…

— Justin Simien

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 rarely sit down to write something. I usually have an experience and relate it to somebody and go, 'There I connected some dots,'…

— Greg Behrendt

When you write something, at first you might feel very defensive and protective of every single thing, but after a while, you just see…

— Edgar Wright

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 a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. So it's hard for me to come…

— Lewis Black

I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's…

— Denis Leary

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

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

Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also have to…

— J. B. Smoove

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 only write about stuff that sort of happens to me, and then I blow it up into a much funnier version.

— Jason Jones