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Andy Rooney Quotes about Writing

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Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

Andy Rooney
Writing, Should, Sentences

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

Andy Rooney
Writing, Thinker, Good Writers

Have you noticed that they put advertisements in with your bills now? Like bills aren't distasteful enough, they have to stuff junk mail in there with them. I get back at them. I put garbage in with my check when I mail it in. Coffee grinds, banana peels...I write, "Could you throw this away for me?"

Andy Rooney
Coffee, Writing, Junk

No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.

Andy Rooney
Book, Writing, Guy

The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.

Andy Rooney
Writing, Punctuation Marks, Confusing
"Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney (Foreword, p. 13), 2003.

It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.

Andy Rooney
Writing, Television, Wells

I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

Andy Rooney
Writing, Retiring

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

Andy Rooney
Powerful, Writing, Retiring

When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.

Andy Rooney
Writing, Thinking, Typewriters
Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.94, PublicAffairs

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