An Attitude Will Give You Heft.

Give Yourself An Impossible Task And Solve It - Then You've Got A Really Good Story.

Comedians Are Really Writers Who Don't Have Pens And Pencils About Them, But They Riff.

People Have A Comic Bent Or An Angularity To Their Thinking, And Those Are The People Who Make Jokes. And It's Usually People Who Were In An Environment, When They Were Young, Where Jokes Were At A Premium, Or At Least Considered Important To A Life. My Parents Always Listened To The Comedy Radio Shows, We Went To The Comedy Movies, And My Parents Appreciated Comedy. So Kids Listen And Follow What Their Parents Like.

I Write Books That Way - I Put A First Line Down And Say, "where Does This Go?"

I Was A Teletype Operator In The Army, So That's Where I Learned To Type. One Day, I Went Downstairs To See If I Could Still Type - I Hadn't Done It For Four Or Five Years After The War. So I Typed Out A Page And I Showed It To My Wife And She Said, "where Did You Get This?" I Said I Wrote It. "you Wrote This?" It Was Something Very Funny. I Went And Wrote Another Page, Another Couple Of Pages, And By The Time I Was Finished I Had 13 Little Short Stories, Humorous Short Stories.