Quotes by Writing I'm composing and writing music. Anthony Hopkins composingwriting-musicwriting I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was my limitation in life... And I wanted to write music, and I didn’t know what I was doing and I never had the technique or understanding of it... But I’ve always played the piano and I can improvise on the piano, but the problem is that I can’t write down what I write. I can read music but I can’t write numbers. Anthony Hopkins pianoplaywriting My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk. Anthony Horowitz writingbookthinking My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end. Anthony Horowitz twistsstrongwriting Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist. Anthony Horowitz spymagicwriting I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is. Anthony Horowitz creatingwritingworld I love writing different things. Anthony Horowitz different-thingsdifferentwriting …my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never much cared for horror stories. Anthony Horowitz horror-storieswritingbook The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men. Anthony J. Carson writingmenpeople Usually the beginning of a story that people hear a lot. For example, "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut" or "My dad keeps losing his car keys." And then I just think of different ways the story could end. "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut. I don't understand why she's crying. I'm the one who has to get a new girlfriend." Then I try it out on stage. I don't do a lot of re-writing. My jokes either work or they don't. The trick is just to write a ton of jokes. Anthony Jeselnik dadgirlfriendwriting Sure, retarded jokes write themselves. But the spelling is always way off. Anthony Jeselnik retardedwritingway Todd Glass has amazing energy on stage. Dave Attell is one of my favorites because he's a one liner comic who is always incredibly in the moment with the audience. As for newer people, I think Adrienne Iapalucci writes some great, dark jokes and Sean Patton has a hilarious voice on stage. Anthony Jeselnik darkwritingthinking I'm really proud of the album. It's something I always wanted to do but I had to wait until I was ready. Shakespeare is a culmination of eight years of stand up experience and joke writing. I recorded two shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York. The crowds were great and that's what really makes an album. Anthony Jeselnik eightnew-yorkwriting 2010 has been awesome. I got to write on the David Hasselhoff Roast this summer, and that's always been a dream. Anthony Jeselnik summerdreamwriting I was always cutting words. I even would write my jokes in my notebook. I still do this, almost like a poem. Anthony Jeselnik notebookcuttingwriting I try to write three jokes every morning, although I don't know what they are. I write them as fast as I can, then I put them away for a month. So I couldn't even tell you what they are, or if they're good. I just assume they weren't. Anthony Jeselnik writingmorningtrying I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else, and that's how I'll get better.' Anthony Jeselnik get-bettersaidwriting On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and tweet it. That was my thing, and then at a certain point, people started demanding it. Anthony Jeselnik tragedywritingpeople About a year after I moved to Los Angeles, I decided I wanted to be a joke writer for a late night talk show. So I met with a late night joke writer and he told me that I should start by doing stand-up comedy, because that would really hone my sense of humor and joke writing ability. Eventually I took a stand-up class and a few months later I had a seven-minute act. Anthony Jeselnik writingnightyears I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say. Anthony Jeselnik comedianstuffwriting«96979899100101102103104105106»
