I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.
The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
There is a 90% failure rate for most shows. It's difficult for any show to write for the next season.
Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.
Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.
When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.
All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.
Writing humor is not something every single person can do.
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
