Paula Pell Quotes

Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.

Twitter is basically just writing a bunch of one-liners - it's a short form or whatever.

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

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.

Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly.

Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.

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.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

I saw a report on the news: 'Peter Dinklage tweeted... ' What? You know, I don't need any of that stuff. I got an email account; that's all I need.

Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.

When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

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.

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience.

I share an office with Jason Sudeikis, and I'm friends with him, so I end up writing for him a lot.

Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

I want to stay proactive and keep having funny material online.

Twitter is a wonderful device. And I call it a device, but there are people that are addicted to it now. That's not good. You're really not very interesting using only so many letters.

I'm very driven by writing. Coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' because it's such a writing job, and we all write our parts on the show and create characters, I'm so respectful of good writing.

Twitter is a good medium to lean how to write jokes. It pushes you to write a better joke in that, on Twitter, the first joke about something has already happened. You need to think of the second joke and the third joke.

Lots of people do that silly tweeting.

That's the great test: if you're going to be a great comic writer, not a humorist, you've got to take it into the throat of grief. Can you make laughter and seriousness so close that they are the same thing?