Writing Partners Quotes

I went to Columbia film school; that's where I met Matthew Weisman. We then became writing partners, graduated, and moved out to Los Angeles. I didn't know a soul.

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.

For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks or months or years and figure it out. But now, you don't have to do that; you don't have to be alone in the room anymore.

I never want to co-write. People never just write a quarter of a book, do they? I don't think you can get your story across.

We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.

Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do.

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.

It sometimes is better to write in a more directed, focused way when the pages are aimed at something already, a mission statement or a basic spine that represents the theme or the concept that you've agreed on, and writing partners are great for that because you can sit there until you get it.

There are a lot of guys who do this job, and they have tons of assistants. They all kind of write together, and for me, it's basically me here in this room, and that's it.

I love co-writing. That whole process is a challenge in that good writers are pushing you.

Well, unlike a lot of authors, I will be the one to cop to having a ghostwriter. I've always written with someone else.

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.