Lewis Black Quotes

I remember how I would wait for a play idea. I wasted a tremendous amount of time. I didn't realize that ideas could be made into movies or novels.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

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

Especially when I write, I want to get out of people's heads and have them speak and have them get dressed and have them go to work.

In my free time, I'd written 'Sammy's Hill' - it had started out as a play. I just did it for myself.

I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.

I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.

I sometimes feel as if ideas for a novel kind of pop up like numbers in a bingo tumbler, and then they're ready to go.

I'm often asked how I get ideas for my stories. The answer is there's no single way; every story is different.

I'll usually see a scene in my head, playing like a movie trailer. After I've written that scene, everything takes off from there.

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

I'm not a playwright.

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.

Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.

I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.