Writing

“I am scared to write non-comedic material because I fear it will come across as melodramatic.”

“When I write it’s usually an interior process with a lot of changes happening at breakneck speed in my head.”

“The editing has got to be in the writing.”

“I want to be called a writer before anything else, before an actor, before a comedian.”

“Writing in another language is humbling.”

“Characters must be allowed to write their own scripts.”

“What I wanted in coming to Belleville is to spend less time behind the typewriter and more time on my boat.”

““It’s the writer’s job to tell society what it pretends it doesn’t know.””

“This, and whatsoever I myself observed, after attaining years of discretion, for thirty or forty years, I laid up in the strong box (of my memory), and that I have written.”

“Writing is a renaming of the world.”

“I am writing these words from a prison cell.”

“If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage. It's that simple.”

“Scrisul este şi el un talent cultivat cu educaţia, ca şi toate celelalte talente.”

“I have rarely written in the same room with anyone.”

““Precision, economy of statement, logic employed to ends that are disinterested, drawing and identifying, liberate ... the imagination.””

“It would be great to have a year or two where I went, ‘I’ve got nothing to say.’”

“« commence mon récit qui sera tout à la gloire de Dieu et au bien du patriarcat syrien d'Antioche. »”

“Todo comediante é um pouco ator, porque atua naquilo que escreve.”