Dylan Moran Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.”

“The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.”

“The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity.”

“We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.”

“You're not going to learn anything if you're not prepared to go flat, so I'm very happy to go flat.”

“I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised... yeah, it's a similar feeling, sure.”

“A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.”

“I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'”

“I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have the confidence that you've done what you need to do to it, because otherwise it's an exercise in vanity.”

“I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.”