Dave Barry Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

  Dave Barry

  Running, Religious, Writing

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.201, Ballantine Books

• Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is how I got a good job in journalism.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Jobs, Writing

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.48, Ballantine Books

• Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

  Dave Barry

  God, Writing, Stupidity

• Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Despair, Elements

• Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

• The more boring a newspaper is, the more it is respected. The most respected newspaper in the United States is The New York Times, which has thousands of reporters constantly producing enormous front-page stories about bauxite...The [New York] Post would write about bauxite only if famous celebrites were arrested for snorting it in an exclusive Manhattan nightclub.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Writing, Media

• Editorials are written by people who have agreed to have several strong opinions a day and to write them down, provided they do not have to sign their names.

  Dave Barry

  Strong, Writing, Media

• All these people helped make this book possible. But let me make one thing clear: If there are any errors or omissions in this book, these people are not responsible. In the end, there is only one person responsible for what I write, and that person, of course, is: Donald Trump.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.10, Ballantine Books

• People don't think of writers as sex objects. The women who write to me and suggest that we ought to have sex usually turn out to be, like, eighty. And their letters always end with, "Just joking."

  Dave Barry

  Sex, Writing, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Your job is to give people a reason to keep reading.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Reading, Writing

• Every year I write a tax advice column and I used to always make fun of that. One year, one of my favorite IRS commissioners, I think his name was Roscoe somebody, wrote that one of the most often-asked questions by taxpayers was, "How can I contribute more?" Well, I tell ya, ol' Roscoe's really been doing situps under parked cars again. I've heard a lot of people ask a lot of questions about taxes, but I never heard anybody say, "How can I, the ordinary person, send more money for no reason?"

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  "All I Think Is That It's Stupid". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

• When I'm writing columns, it's - all I'm thinking about is jokes, joke, joke, joke, setup, punch line, joke, joke, joke. And I really don't care where it goes.

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Thinking, Care

  "Dave Barry's Mix of Over the Top Humor, Seriousness Reflects 'Insanity' of Miami". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. February 7, 2013.

• It's very slow for me to create humor. It takes me a long time to write a humor piece. It takes days.

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Long, Pieces

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

• When I write my annual tax column, some ex-IRS agent will complain, "There you go IRS bashing again." They're always saying that they're just doing their job. Someone I know once said, "You could get another job."

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Writing, Irs

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

• With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens to people, and it has to make sense and end in a way that is satisfying. So I spend a lot more time thinking about that. Then the writing itself usually is easier for me, because I know where it's going.

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Dave Barry's Mix of Over the Top Humor, Seriousness Reflects 'Insanity' of Miami". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. June 4, 2013.

• The one thing I'm terrified of trying to write about is sex. I mean my God, my wife might read it or my daughter might read it or my son might read it, so no, I've never really written about eroticism at all.

  Dave Barry

  Daughter, Sex, Writing

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

• I'm always writing new books so I don't dwell on the ones I've already done. I think that's a habit from being a newspaper guy because you're always writing columns and you can't reflect on the ones you've already done.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with McClain J., www.teenink.com.

• I don't even care what Bill Bryson writes about because he will make it interesting. I love "A Walk in the Woods," about the Appalachian Trail, but his most amazing book is "A Short History of Nearly Everything."

  Dave Barry

  Book, Writing, Interesting

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• With humor you have so many options with topics and length, I mean I can write humor essays in books now and they can be as long as I want them to be.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

• I don't like anything unsigned in a newspaper that purports to be the opinion of some group if we don't know who the group is. It's laughable to say that The Miami Herald's editorials or any newspaper's editorials represent any views other than those of the people writing them, so why don't we tell everybody who they are?

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Views, People

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

• I've come to realize that you're going to get criticized no matter what. Somebody will always hate what you write, especially if you write humor for a fairly broad audience. Somebody will always find it not funny and declare you're not funny anymore. And sometimes people are just crazy.

  Dave Barry

  Hate, Crazy, Writing

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

• I love the resource of the Internet. I use it all the time. Anything I'm writing - for example, if I'm writing a scene about Washington D.C. and I want to know where this monument is, I can find it right away, I can get a picture of the monument, it just makes your life so much easier, especially if you're writing fiction. You can check stuff so much quicker, and I think that's all great for writers.

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

• Always remember that if editors were so damned smart, they would know how to dress.

  Dave Barry

  Smart, Writing, Editors

• Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane. If I spent all my hours writing things like "Fatal Distraction," I'd become a brooding, erratic melancholic. I'd be Raskolnikov.

  Dave Barry

  Pain, Writing, Erratic

• I am much more likely to care about someone trying to be funny and give them some credit for whatever he or she did that was remotely funny than I am to be mused by somebody declaring this isn't funny, that isn't funny, this sucks. If you want to write humor, you're going to have to get used to that.

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Giving, Trying

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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