Part creative writing guide, part memoir, this is a handy, humorous guide to writing for television from the mind that brought you Brass Eye, Smack the Pony, Grumpy Old Men and Harry Hill's TV Burp.
How To Write Everything is the ultimate writer's handbook. It tells you about every aspect of writing, from having an idea to getting the idea out into the world and getting paid for it, too. It covers everything from journalism to screen-writing, from speeches to sketches, from sitcoms to novels. With thirty years' experience as an award-winning script-writer, journalist, author and broadcaster David Quantick is ideally suited, as a writer, to write this definitive writer's guide to writing...everything.
Part creative writing guide, part memoir, this is a handy, humorous guide to writing for television from the mind that brought you Brass Eye, Smack the Pony, Grumpy Old Men and Harry Hill's TV Burp.
How To Write Everything is the ultimate writer's handbook. It tells you about every aspect of writing, from having an idea to getting the idea out into the world and getting paid for it, too. It covers everything from journalism to screen-writing, from speeches to sketches, from sitcoms to novels. With thirty years' experience as an award-winning script-writer, journalist, author and broadcaster David Quantick is ideally suited, as a writer, to write this definitive writer's guide to writing...everything.
The ultimate writer's handbook, from the award-winning writer of Veep and numerous other shows.
David Quantick really has written everything. He is part
of the writing team for HBO's multi-award winning show Veep, for
which he won the 2015 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series and
Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.
As a television writer, he has written for The Thick Of It, The Day
Today, Brass Eye, TV Burp and many other shows. As a radio writer,
he created Radio 4's One and Radio 2's The Blagger's Guide. His
novel Sparks was described as "excellent" by Neil Gaiman and his
graphic series Louis Wain (created with Savage Pencil) was
published in Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic. As well as a series of
music books and the official biography of Eddie Izzard, David wrote
the Sunday Times best-seller Grumpy Old Men and has written for
over 50 magazines and newspapers, from The Guardian and The Daily
Telegraph to NME and Q. With Jane Bussmann, he created the world's
first internet sitcom, The Junkies, and he is also the writer of
several short films, including the highly-acclaimed Lot 13. How To
Write Everything is his first book about writing.
Clear, kind, funny, and full of good advice. There's nobody better
to provide it than David Quantick,who in writing terms is the
quintessential jack of all trades and master of - well, all of them
actually.
*Jonathan Coe*
David Quantick has a medical condition whereby he literally cannot
be unfunny.
*Caitlin Moran*
This is the book David Quantick's publishers have been waiting
for.
*Julie Burchill*
He stands astride the world of entertainment, a comedy colossus. If
this book is as funny as his excuses for being late to TV Burp
meetings it will be a best seller!
*Harry Hill*
Quantick doesn't just make it look easy to write anything, he makes
it look easy to write hilariously about everything. Damn him.
*Graeme Garden*
David Quantick is a brilliant and hilarious man, who has spent
years writing for (and with) everybody, from Armando Iannucci to
Harry Hill. This is a warm, thoughtful and incisive guide to all
kinds of writing, and especially television and journalism. If you
want to write, but aren't sure where to begin, or even which medium
would suit you best, he can help. A thoroughly pragmatic and
unpretentious guide for the perplexed self-starter.
*Natalie Haynes, author of The Amber Fury*
‘No chapter on ‘How To Write Quotes For A Book Cover’ but otherwise
excellent and very entertaining.’
*Graeme Garden*
‘I taught David Quantick everything he knows. Here it is – read it
and weep.’
*Julie Burchill*
‘Quantick doesn’t just make it look easy to write anything, he
makes it look easy to write hilariously about everything. Damn
him.’
*Hadley Freeman*
‘Clear, kind, funny, and full of good advice.
There’s nobody better to provide it than David Quantick, who in
writing terms is the quintessential jack of all trades and master
of…well, all of them actually.’
*Jonathan Coe*
‘He taught the world to laugh … He stands astride the world of
entertainment, a comedy colossus.’
*Harry Hill*
‘A thoroughly pragmatic and unpretentious guide
for the perplexed self-starter.’
*Natalie Haynes*
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