Graham Nash Quotes

Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.

Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do.

I never want to co-write. People never just write a quarter of a book, do they? I don't think you can get your story across.

So we [with Kate DiCamillo] would act them out, we would toss ideas back and forth, we would laugh, we would argue. Sometimes it went really well, sometimes it was such a pain in the ass. Our other rule was that we wouldn't work on it at all when we weren't in the other's presence. It was really hard not to do that. We'd start going on email back and forth, 'What do you think about this, what do you think about that?' But, no, no, no, it had to be live. So we forced ourselves not to look at it except during those two-hour stretches when we were actually with each other.

Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.

Writing with a partner is, in some ways, an easy but odd process. Two people come into a room and look to each other for motivation. One might not be in the right mood at any given moment. And somehow, you begin; somehow, out of your exchange of thoughts, something engages both of you, and the process of collaboration begins.

With writing, I prefer the solo effort, but when a team is working right, as it did on 'The Grifters,' boy, it's exhilarating.

For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks or months or years and figure it out. But now, you don't have to do that; you don't have to be alone in the room anymore.

I love co-writing. That whole process is a challenge in that good writers are pushing you.

I think writing in a group, even though it can be a challenge - you have to be on your toes all the time - is the way the best comedy gets written. It's very, very collaborative. A lot of comedy writers are definitely introverted nerds.

I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person.

I never co-write. I've tried it before, and I just can't do it.

The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in the dark. I like writing and find it challenging, but I don't find it easy.

It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful.

In the early days, it was, you know, I used to weep while I was writing. I used to grab at any kind of anything, any hint, any tip of how to make it easy.

I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It's ten people, and you're together every day laughing your heads off.

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.

I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.

I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.

We like writing with each other; it's fun.

'One With You' was the hardest book I have ever written. I rewrote it three times.

My entry into screenwriting was not smooth.