Short Sketch Quotes

#1. But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

Demetri Martin

#2. I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.

Michael Kors

#3. For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

William H Gass

#4. in fact that's what I liked about black folks all my life: They never judged me. My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are." Blacks have always been peaceful and trusting.

James McBride

#5. It's not the good that die young, it's the lucky.

Mark Twain

#6. That's writing, I suppose - dozens of decisions about what's in, what's out, what goes with what, what's clever but not honest, what's so honest that it's a truism, what's meretricious - and all just to produce one short sketch.

David Mitchell

#7. But he's there! Potter's there! Someone grab him!

J.K. Rowling

#8. I think sketch writing is a good spot for everyone to start because it requires you to develop characters, have a beginning, middle and end and have a bunch of jokes in a short amount of time.

Blake Anderson

#9. To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.

Harry Chapin

#10. Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace had my M.S. sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract! Even his terms now stand as Heads of my Chapters.

Charles Darwin

#11. If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber

Rowan Pelling

#12. I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

Abby Elliott

#13. Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.

Mindy Kaling

#14. If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

Kumail Nanjiani