Jim Gaffigan Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you can be a genius, you try and write a postcard you come across like a moron anyway: 'This city's got big buildings. I like food. Bye.'

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Writing, Humor

• I think it's great some hotels provide stationery. Because the first thing I like to do when I get to a hotel room is write a letter. "My dearest Gwendolyn, I arrived by nightfall at the Embassy Suites. It will be a fortnight after my return that this letter shall arrive. Allow me to explain the curious charge at the ledger. It is because I miss thee so much, darling, I accidentally ordered Sorrority Sisters 7."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Writing, Thinking

• Why do you have to be out of town to write a postcard? I want a to write a postcard to my neighbor: "I still live near you!" The guy sees me go into my apartment, flips the card over, it's just a picture of me holding a rifle.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Writing, Humor

• Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Views, Comedian

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

• I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, and that's the only thing I know. I don't know anything else.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Mean, Bigs

• People need to write articles and they need to have angles in them and I'm grateful when people are doing articles, but I always say there's not a great mystery to stand-up comedy.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Grateful, Writing, People

  "Jim Gaffigan Talks to Brian Regan About Hating Being Called a 'Clean' Comedian, Resisting Hollywood, and Playing Big Venues". Interview with Jim Gaffigan, www.vulture.com. September 23, 2015.

• Not that I don't think irreverent humor and someone being filthy is funny, I just do what I do. Any comedian would admit throwing an f-bomb in there would help get a reaction. ... I'm not on a Puritanical pursuit, but when I would curse in a joke, I believe I'm not done writing it.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  "Jim Gaffigan returns to his old stomping grounds, Purdue". "Journal & Courier" Newspaper, September 6, 2007.

• For stand-up comedians that go onstage and get to write and perform and direct, and do all these things, the allure of a television show is still there but if it doesn't offer a level of creative fulfillment, it's oddly unappealing.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Creative, Comedian

  "Jim Gaffigan Talks to Brian Regan About Hating Being Called a 'Clean' Comedian, Resisting Hollywood, and Playing Big Venues". Interview with Jim Gaffigan, www.vulture.com. September 23, 2015.

• I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Thinking, Decision

  "Q&A With Jim Gaffigan: ‘Hot Pocket’ Comedian Reaches Out to Our Wounded Soldiers (VIDEO)". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

• I definitely write about things that are universal, that everyone can identify with. You're supposed to write about things you're passionate about and I guess I am a foodie. I do love food and it's kind of like I'm an eccentric observationalist guy. To make it kind of universal, I try a lot of different things. When I first started writing this, I was like, 'No food.' Then, you know, it just always goes there.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Guy, Trying

  "EXCLUSIVE: Jim Gaffigan Brings the Funny with King Baby". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 27, 2009.

• I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Done, Kind

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

• Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you. So I feel like with food, it is a passion of mine. It's where my sensibility rests. I love topics that are universal, and I love stuff that doesn't alienate people.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Passion, Giving

  "Jim Gaffigan talks Domino's, Law & Order, and having the gall to accept serious acting roles". Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. January 28, 2010.

• There's this message to comedians in particular, that you shouldn't write it, and a television writer should write it. And that's a prevailing conventional wisdom that I think is really wrong. That's not to say that television writers aren't great, but I think that the belief that some comedy writer's going to be able to capture your voice is naive.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Giving, Inspire

  "Jim Gaffigan talks Domino's, Law & Order, and having the gall to accept serious acting roles". Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. January 28, 2010.

• I wish, in some ways, I was the type of comedian who could do something blistering and topical, but I'm the guy who gets stuck in the revolving door and thinks I should write about that.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Thinking, Doors

  "Why Jim Gaffigan Can't Stop Eating". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2014.

• I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Ideas, Tinkering

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I don't have any delusions. I'm not a novelist - I'm a comedian who writes. I love doing the stand-up and the touring and the albums and all that, but it's pretty amazing to go into a library and see your book there.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Book, Writing, Comedian

  "Why Jim Gaffigan Can't Stop Eating". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2014.

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