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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"Fun is never gone because life is fun."
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"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."
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"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."
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"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."
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"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."
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"Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something."
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"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."
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"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."
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"I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it."
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"Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that."
Movies
"I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?"
Horror
"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."
Sympathy
"It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can."
Books
"If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life."
Life
"If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke."
Fun
"I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me."
Comedy
"I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell."
Health
"My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination."
Imagination
"You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next."
Trust
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