Dave Barry 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

• Gracias a mi sólida formación académica, hoy puedo escribir cientos de palabras sobre prácticamente cualquier tema sin poseer ni una pizca de información, que es como conseguí un buen trabajo en periodismo.

  Dave Barry

  Divertido, Trabajos, Escritura

  Dave Barry (2009). "Dave Barry es de Marte y Venus", p.48, Ballantine Books

• Corrige cuidadosamente para ver si te falta alguna palabra.

  Dave Barry

  Dios, Escritura, Estupidez

• 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

  Trabajo, Escribir, Pensar

• 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

  Divertido, Libro, Lectura

  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

  Sexo, Escritura, Pensamiento

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

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

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Reading, Writing

• 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

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

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

• Ni siquiera me importa sobre qué escribe Bill Bryson, porque lo hace interesante. Me encanta "Un paseo por el bosque", sobre el Sendero de los Apalaches, pero su libro más asombroso es "Breve historia de casi todo".

  Dave Barry

  Book, Writing, Interesting

  Fuente: 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

  Libro, Escritura, Media

  Fuente: 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

  Fuente: 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

  Fuente: 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

  Escribir, Dar, Intentar

  Fuente: www.writersdigest.com

• There are terrific TV shows now. This is a golden age for TV humor, I think. There's an actual market there. Of course, I have no idea how you'd break in, but there must be a way. They have all these shows and they need jokes and somebody is writing them.

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Thinking, Tv Shows

  Fuente: www.writersdigest.com

• I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Transition, Machines

  "Secretos de un ganador de dos Pulitzer". Entrevista con Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. 30 de junio de 2010.

• The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in and plunge too far.

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Thinking, Plot

  Fuente: www.writersdigest.com

• I always wanted to write when I was a kid; it just never occurred to me that you could have a job that didn't involve any actual work.... I felt it would be fun to have a job like that where you could make stuff up and be irresponsible and get paid for it.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Fun, Kids

• I really need to know where I'm going with fiction to write it in a way that at least I'm happy with. And I really think that a lot of fiction books end badly because terrific writers said, "I'll just figure it out" and plunge in, but have created so many problems that they are kind of impossible to solve. I mean, I'm talking really good writers do this and you can tell when they got to the end they either had to do something preposterous or they just don't really resolve things. So for fiction I spend a lot more time outlining and for humor I really don't do much of it.

  Dave Barry

  Libro, Escritura, Media

  Fuente: www.writersdigest.com

• When preparing your return, you should be sure to avoid common mistakes. The two most common taxpayer mistakes, states the IRS booklet, are (1) "failure to include a current address," and (2) "failure to be a large industry that gives humongous contributions to key tax-law-writing congresspersons."

  Dave Barry

  Mistake, Writing, Law

  Dave Barry (1994). "El mundo según Dave Barry", Outlet

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