You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casuall…

- Carl Reiner

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

- Carl Reiner

I certainly have warm relationships with people, but you choose the people you have those relationships with. There are some people I don't bother wi…

- Carl Reiner

Id like to acknowledge three people who early on knew Mel Brooks was one of the funniest people in the world: Sid Caesar, me, and Mel Brooks.

- Carl Reiner

When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.

- Carl Reiner

An attitude will give you heft.

- Carl Reiner

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do kno…

- Carl Reiner

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

- Carl Reiner

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

- Carl Reiner