Michael Ian Black Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way, and over however many tweets, you start to create a character for yourself.

  Michael Ian Black

  Writing, Character, Down And

  "Michael Ian Black on the many versions of himself". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2013.

• The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them.

  Michael Ian Black

  Writing, Character, Littles

  "Michael Ian Black on the many versions of "himself"". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2013.

• My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should write children's books today." Then I sit down and write a children's book, and if it takes more than, realistically, three hours, I feel like I've done something wrong.

  Michael Ian Black

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Michael Ian Black on his surprising turn as a noted children's book author". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

• Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort of books that I write - and it's the only kinds of books I'm capable of writing.

  Michael Ian Black

  Silly, Book, Writing

  "Michael Ian Black on his surprising turn as a noted children's book author". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

• You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children's books, but it would actually be bad if I did.

  Michael Ian Black

  Children, Stupid, Book

  "Michael Ian Black on his surprising turn as a noted children's book author". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

• Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.

  Michael Ian Black

  Writing, Publish

  The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. January 25, 2008.

• By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up. And then I want to do something else. I don't know why it is true with me that I can't just be satisfied doing the one thing, but I'm constantly flitting from one thing to another.

  Michael Ian Black

  Book, Writing, Hair

  "An Interview With Michael Ian Black: "Oh, There's Plenty Of Bad Reviews On Amazon."". Interview with Jory John, www.buzzfeed.com. March 8, 2014.

• When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.

  Michael Ian Black

  Writing, Savages, Conducting

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

• I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.

  Michael Ian Black

  Writing, Thinking, Order

  "An Interview With Michael Ian Black: "Oh, There's Plenty Of Bad Reviews On Amazon."". Interview with Jory John, www.buzzfeed.com. March 8, 2014.

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