David Ives

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes. ↗

— David Ives

#i #minutes #perfect #pop #pop songs

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. ↗

— David Ives

#i #i think #new #new york #new york times

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. ↗

— David Ives

#discriminatory #elitist #lists #print #small

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships. ↗

— David Ives

#always #existential #family #intense #intense love

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ↗

— David Ives

#because #challenge #comedy #english #form

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.' ↗

— David Ives

#down #go #god #hours #least

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well. ↗

— David Ives

#instruments #invent #less #more #only