Group Writing Quotes

I used to have a protest folk band in high school, and I wrote all my own songs. Then, in the B-52s, we would write collectively.

I've been sort of writing sketches for songs on my own forever and putting them down on cassette tapes. Yet for years and years and years, my main songwriting outlet was as a member of Sonic Youth, and for most of our time together, our best songs were written in a group setting, where the four of us were getting together in a room.

When you're working in a collaborative storytelling medium, every step of the way, you're opening yourself up.

For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks or months or years and figure it out. But now, you don't have to do that; you don't have to be alone in the room anymore.

I think writing in a group, even though it can be a challenge - you have to be on your toes all the time - is the way the best comedy gets written. It's very, very collaborative. A lot of comedy writers are definitely introverted nerds.

Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do.

With writing, I prefer the solo effort, but when a team is working right, as it did on 'The Grifters,' boy, it's exhilarating.

I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person.

I don't really write all that well with others.

I cannot write in isolation. I write with people around me.

Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.

We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees.

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.

Writing by committee becomes much less about a vision. It is really about a piece of merchandise.

I used to write jokes with friends. We'd pick a topic and then think out loud, brainstorm.

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.

There's no one songwriter in the band. It's collaborative, and we all have different tastes.