There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.
Dom DeLuise
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ADAM MCKAY Dolly Parton... I love being around that woman! I worked really hard to keep up with her.
DOM DELUISE The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You...
DOM DELUISE I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone.
DOM DELUISE Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay...
DOM DELUISE The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, w...
RICH COHEN 'Tropic Thunder' is one of my favorite movies of all time. 'Blazing Saddles.' Anythi...
JOHN CENA My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama....
BILL PAXTON They emptied 14 saddles in the first charge.
ROBERT MORGAN I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the im...
RICHARD WRIGHT A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.
GERARD DE MARIGNY I have never known anything to be as exquisite or as excruciating as the Love-Hate relationship I ha...
TONNY K. BROWN We were blazing. Six months after we opened, 9/11 happened.
BRUCE SMITH Dom stepped up for Jones.
GREG MCANALLY Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of op...
MARCEL PROUST I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, whi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not sh...
JOAN DIDION Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't ha...
STEPHEN KING There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for
life. If you write for a livi...
TONI MORRISON If you're a writer, you'll know it by the distinct feeling of only being able to breathe properly wh...
KAREN LUELLEN Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?
Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.
MARTIN AMIS I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all...
EUDORA WELTY When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing d...
MARGUERITE DURAS They were all a little hung over from yesterday, ... The Dom Perignon went down very nicely, I must ...
PETER FLOOD 'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics...
GENE LUEN YANG We writers constantly try to build up our own confidence by getting published, making sales, winning...
BORIA SAX If one can, anyone can.
If two can, you can, too!
NANCY I. SANDERS In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to b...
JUNOT DíAZ There were five bullet holes in the front window and five bullet holes in the vehicle. There were tw...
CMDR. RASHALL BRACKNEY I have voices in my head
I'm a slave to imaginary people
I feel what they feel
I expe...
CHARISSE SPIERS Write only if you wish to read it again and again...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU It's very frustrating when you're not healthy. Dom was playing good. We had a good win over Barry wh...
TONY LONGA Dom was thinking of doing something on his own, ... So we just put the two shows together.
RON WOOD Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enter...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Out of their saddles into the dirt--and thereby hangs a tale.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.
DAN BROWN There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better under...
STEPHEN KING Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.
ARTHUR FREED Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving e...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of ...
ANNIE DILLARD I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tel...
DAVID GRANN Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Go...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Mi vida estuvo siempre perturbada por una maraña de trampas, gambetas e ilusiones para burlar los i...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Writing enables a person to build a protective barrier shielding them from an adverse environment, s...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Please, Lord, tell me what to do! “Mom?” I said later that night. “Yes?” We were sitting on ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
IRVIN S. COBB The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '6...
JAMES WOLCOTT Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!
AVIJEET DAS Our special teams tonight were the difference. Five-on-five, I think we were the better team. It's a...
DANIEL ALFREDSSON After finishing 1st draft of a novel, I have the characters, dialogue, scenes, and a plotline. I use...
EDWARD FAHEY They were relentless on the puck. The first five minutes, we were on our heels.
DREW DENZIN Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader....
OWEN WISTER Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn'...
CHRISTY HALL He's still got a blazing fastball,
FRANK THOMAS We can't see 2 miles underground. We didn't know if there was a blazing fire.
BEN HATFIELD ...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie...
ROBERT GALBRAITH Oh it was blazing. Really blazing. I mean we could see it from across the street.
ERIC REED If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
IRVIN S. COBB As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasures ...
JT SANZ Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.
A. LEE MARTINEZ Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart,...
PHILIP SIDNEY Before there were books, we read each other.
LISA CRON My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a sp...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing soci...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Reading is sexy. Women who read are suspect. Women who write dangerous.
CHLOE THURLOW The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.
ROBERT GALBRAITH I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
JULIA CAMERON There were a lot of comics out there who we love whose half-hours were five, six, seven years old.
ELIZABETH PORTER The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the aut...
KILROY J. OLDSTER While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI Woody Allen stayed so good because he never left New York. Howard Stern stayed so good because he ne...
ARTIE LANGE They come in and sleep sometimes. Yesterday there were five sleeping right there, all men.
ANTONIO HERNANDEZ They sprung a couple of guys once in a while, but we know Dom is there and he's going to make some g...
DANIEL ALFREDSSON Both goaltenders made great saves in the game, Dom just made more. From where I was standing, he was...
LINDY RUFF I mean Jesus never asked a man to do a damn thing that Jesus didn’t do.
WALTER M. MILLER JR. There are fewer MBA candidates out there than there were five years ago because companies are hiring...
TIM WAGNER The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the ...
WARREN LITTLEFIELD I don’t see big subjects as separate from little ones. Yes, you could trudge through life with gre...
JOHNNY RICH Compared to the modern high school athlete, Dom is definitely one-of-a-kind.
BOB ESPOSITO Matt was more the little brother. Dom is a more passionate type of clown.
REED MARTIN There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN It looked like my ball, but there were five or six around it.
GREG MURPHY Encouragement is a blazing hope.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Women were professors, lawyers and judges. They were journalists, writers and poets.
ANGELA KING My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
LARRY NIVEN There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to ...
WOLE SOYINKA We were instructed to stay there until at least lunchtime on the first day. Now England are scoring ...
BILL BROWN There were up to five inches of rain standing on parts of the field. The groundskeeper said it's nev...
GREG BROOKS Ninety-five percent of the economists on the continent were with Blair. There is an economic justifi...
DANIEL GROS He looked at the blue sky above and the green grass below and he knew he would always love this worl...
AVIJEET DAS Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers ...
VIRGINIA ALISON Writers,” Esther said simply. “For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in you...
SHERRILYN KENYON A writing tablet evidences the writer’s mind shadows, the dark twin that sketches the meandering o...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes?
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN There were probably five investigators that were working on this case and the frustration and anger ...
AL WILLIAMS I had five holes in my body that were not there before the attack,
CURTIS SLIWA I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stan...
FANNY HOWE Everyone carries a story which can be a best selling novel, it’s just a matter of penning down you...
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