Write Quotes
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I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.
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Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.
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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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You write about what you know.
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If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction.
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I won't say extremely prolific, but I try to write stuff that will last a long time.
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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
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I write about true-life type things.
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When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.
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When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.
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It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we're writing for the most important people: the fans.
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I write slowly.
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When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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I play piano and write better than I can sing.
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To write, you have to want something to survive you.
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I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.
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If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'
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I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
