I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.
Copy Quote View & ShareI don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'
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