Erin Foster Quotes

I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.

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.

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.

At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology.

I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject.

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

I'm not really good at character or plot development. I'm just interested in big comedic moments.

I always think about my jokes as like I'm driving down a street, trying to go into all the culs-de-sacs along the way. I'm just taking a thoughtful, weird journey.

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.

When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.

I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.

It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.

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

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 think funny is just the foundation. I don't really think, to some extent, funny is the absolute most important thing. It should also communicate some idea through the medium of cartooning. Just to be funny is... You know what, the things that you laugh hardest at aren't cartoons.

A page a day means I need to focus on a gag a day, and that's great for laughs but bad for plot, and I'm primarily a plot guy.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

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

I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.

You write what makes you laugh, and you hope that the audience agree, and so far they do.