Steven Wright Quotes

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

I wanted the audience to write stories and then read them out if they wanted to. It's always the best part of the show because people are so imaginative.

I love storytellers. When I was growing up, my inspirations were watching Eddie Murphy, Dennis Wolfberg, and Louie Anderson. These guys were great at telling stories, and I made that my own style, talking about things that happened to me and trying to make them funny.

It's always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

I'm just someone who likes making lots of things up and trying to be funny. That's about it.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.

I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

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

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively.