Roseanne Barr Writing Quotations

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.

Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I'm God and I'd like to start over. I don't want to die, I just want everyone else to. I certainly would not be lonely. It would be exciting never having to listen to another person again but just my own self droning on and on. That's why I write a blog. And I read it, too.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.