If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea?
From Douglas Coupland
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.
A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.
Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.
Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.
There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more.
The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com?
I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.
The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity.
The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.
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