writing material Quotes

My first TV job was on an episode of 'Hannah Montana'... Since then, I've been fortunate to end up on shows that are just such a high quality, where the writing and material is incredible.

I tell my writing students that everything is material; just pay attention.

As soon as I finished film school I was thinking about, how do I get to feature films? It took about eight years, and I'm still working. Feature films was not the end goal. Feature films was one of the stages. Getting to the point of the Coen brothers or Tarantino, where you're writing your own material and have the budget to do it properly, that's the end goal, and I'm close to that.

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.

The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill.

Paper is my best friend and paper seller is my worst friend!

Being sad and going out on terrible dates and having horrible breakups and then having a shitty job and then quitting the shitty job and then wondering if you shouldn't have quit the shitty job and then getting a new shitty job that you get fired off of after six weeks, it's all so good for your writing.

I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at one point. I never made it; I was never a headliner. I never made enough time to write enough good material, in my opinion.

We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal; this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.

Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

To me, having 'material' for an essay means not only having something to write about but also having something interesting and original to say about whatever that might be.

I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone. You want to put yourself in a position that no matter what you're talking about, everyone can relate to it and understand it, because it's an experience that everyone can go through. That's what I pattern my writing material and jokes after. I'm trying to maintain a level of realness that my fans can appreciate.