Tina Fey Writing Quotations

You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.

Twitter seems like a busman's holiday: just more writing. I have no plans to do it. I'll just stick with my 24/7 webcam. I'm old-fashioned that way.

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.

I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is saying. But as I got older, I got into college and became more aware that writing is another option, and I started getting into it, too.

"30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again.

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.

It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.

I definitely think of myself still as a writer first, and feel like - with the lucky exception of this - any acting opportunity I've gotten is usually because I was writing on it. This is like a wonderful vacation. If you've ever sat in a writers' room it's the most disgusting, tortuous place, so it's a treat to be treated like a movie actor.

Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.

Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.

[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.

We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone.

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

It's a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go. You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it...You have to let people see what you wrote.