I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.
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I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.
I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly.
I don't even use profanity when I'm angry. I think people expected I'd have written a nice romance or something.
For every profanity, there's a story behind it. People should go beyond my cussing.
I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter... or anybody else's wife.
I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.
Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.
In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.
I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he said, 'Well, Kym, I feel like comics and people that use profanity, you have a lack of vocabulary, actually, a whole lot.'