When 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.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.
The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.
I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.
If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.
Writing is the most important thing in my life - above marriage.
When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'
I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.
My life has really been about writing, though some think it's all about once having been in a ball dress and having an odd life and marrying all the time. But it's the writing that's always been the point.
So many people romanticize writing. And I get it. But I never once wanted to be a writer.