W. E. B. Griffin Quotes

I feel more comfortable writing firmly comedic or slightly comedic stuff.

I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my life is when I was writing the sequels to "MASH". I was able to ridicule everyone.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job - I didn't really know anything about it.

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

Before I went to a meeting at the 'Harvard Lampoon,' I had no idea that there was even a comedy magazine at Harvard, let alone that you could write comedy potentially for a living.

If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

I think there are certain subjects I don't want to tackle, that I don't think I could do a good job with. I don't think I'd be good with... broad comedy? I don't know. Maybe I would.

Sitcoms, I always figured that would be an easy gig, but man, it is not.

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.

If I could wave a magic wand and be anything, I'd be a really respected, really successful author. That's a hard combination to get, though. I really enjoy acting, and it's easier, frankly.

I love funny women. I love writing funny women characters.

I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.

I'm the guy who gets uncomfortable. That's why I was able to write 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'Knocked Up.' I believe in those guys.

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.