Carl Reiner Writing Quotations

Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a movie or something else that's a plus, but the original writing of it is what's very exciting.

When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"