Mike Birbiglia Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• When I was a kid I would write songs, little plays, and poetry in school. If you're an adult and you're a poet, it's all about love and pain, but if you're a kid it's, "Does anyone know a word that rhymes with shark?"

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Song, Pain

• I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Writing, Humor

• My problem with being in New York City is that you really can't make a living as a comedian. You can, but you have to also take writing jobs, which means less stage time.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Jobs, New York, Mean

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 11, 2008.

• My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting, and then rewrite, rewrite and rewrite.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Writing, Trying, Feedback

• You've got to remember that improvisers are writers and actors and directors all simultaneously. That's what's happening in real time because you're writing on your feet, and you are acting out the words and you are directing what the staging is. You're deciding what staging is.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Real, Writing, Feet

• When I'm taking the subway to my improv shows I will be writing in my notebook different actions that I see people doing on the train whether it's eating yogurt or looking at where their stop is, or tripping or holding a baby. It's not preparing scenes and ideas as much as it is stoking your brain to think observantly. Just to place observations in your head, so that they are available somewhere.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Notebook, Baby, Writing

• What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Writing, People, Honest

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Art, Wall, Writing

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• My writing process is very feedback based - I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting... and then rewrite, and rewrite, and rewrite. Chris Gethard and I have been on the road a lot together. When we get on the bus at night, we talk about the jokes that didn't work and the joke possibilities that could work. I think this is a little different from other writers.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Writing, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.flickreel.com

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