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It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.


Jill Soloway

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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as ...
SAM SHEPARD Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enoug...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS What's not to love about a crazy cat lady? You have to be very giving to be a crazy cat lady.
KATE MCKINNON Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated r...
ELLEN DEGENERES I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's...
EDIE FALCO Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be l...
GARRISON KEILLOR simple love's hard to come by/ I'm just living my life, and I'm trying to be a lady.
L.DIVINE A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
MARIANNE MOORE Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady a...
TINA FEY As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.
ADAM MANSBACH I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether ...
ALICE MCDERMOTT Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a...
EDITH HEAD If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.
RAY BRADBURY Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's ch...
NANCY MEYERS All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
SAUL BELLOW Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady
MARILYN MONROE Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
EDITH HEAD The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.
JASON GANN I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to arg...
FERDINAND MARCOS It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is feroc...
SUZANNE FIELDS It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'...
N. K. JEMISIN Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how yo...
KARRINE STEFFANS “A writer soon learns that easy to read is hard to write ...”
CJ HECK I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book...
JAMES PATTERSON How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself so...
JOHN GRISHAM To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it...
BEN LOVETT It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who ar...
HEATHER GRAHAM Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT The best way a writer can find to keep himself going is to live off his (or her) spouse. The trouble...
JOHN GARDNER I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a publi...
K. A. APPLEGATE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they&...
KERRY STOKES Too much research can be the writer's enemy. You can spend days on end in the British Library or...
MARK BILLINGHAM Marry me. Nay, marriage will cost us precious moments together. Let us make sweet, passionate love r...
KIERSTEN WHITE People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way roun...
MAYA ANGELOU But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of ...
STEPHEN KING I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to se...
ALEX FLINN I like my stationery to be funnier, like, 'Here's my note, and it's an elephant with a l...
KATE SPADE There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors o...
DOROTHY FIELDS Is it just me, or do you also think this is unnatural behavior in a female parent? Isn't there a fed...
ANN EDWARDS CANNON It's funny, I'd rather be known as a writer who crafted a really nice piece about women'...
KELLY CORRIGAN It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
EDMUND WHITE I aspire to be like Paul Newman. He was a man's man, a lady's man, and the epitome of a phil...
TREVOR DONOVAN To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpe...
DAVID MIXNER Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?
ALEX TURNER I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
MA JIAN I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.
DANIEL WOODRELL A lady should be allowed to choose her comp'ny, an' should be treated like a lady until she shows sh...
LOUIS L'AMOUR I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady ...
MAISIE WILLIAMS To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can...
JULIANNA BAGGOTT The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a b...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It's a ridiculous book, filled with wicked fantasies and silly notions and improbable romance. But y...
TESSA DARE I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writ...
STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady?" "I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I h...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be fu...
CAROL LEIFER I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transfo...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend ...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN I belong to a family where I think we're all fairly treated, boys or girls. Although I have to w...
TERESITA SY-COSON It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours...
DEBASISH MRIDHA My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.
ANNE M. MULCAHY No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.
SETH MACFARLANE To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte&#...
LOUISE PENNY From the time I was 6 years old I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.
FANNIE FLAGG I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have ...
CHRIS O'DOWD A writer's work is to witness things.
EDWARD HOAGLAND It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
VINCE FLYNN My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain g...
J. K. ROWLING It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.
CAM GIGANDET If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's eno...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we...
MARCIA WALLACE I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's ...
DYLAN MORAN stop looking for job, create one.
SOTONYE ANGA It's hard to be a good philanthropist in China.
CHEN GUANGBIAO

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JILL SCOTT All of life seems like that. Once we settle into some phase or other, and become attached to it, som...
JILL JOHNSTON Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's nev...
JILL SCOTT Terry liked him a lot. I don't know how they connected. He lived close to where we were in the Dalla...
JILL STAUTNER He was as white as a ghost in that ambulance. It was very scary.
JILL SELTZER If I feel really ugly or unhappy, sometimes I'll choose bright colors so they'll make me fee...
JILL SCOTT History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what t...
JILL LEPORE Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questi...
JILL SCOTT Trump says very scary things - deporting immigrants, massive militarism and, you know, ignoring the ...
JILL STEIN This is sort of typical Hillary Clinton: to do things that are not legal, to say that they are, and ...
JILL STEIN I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. ...
JILL SCOTT Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because h...
JILL SCOTT We try to keep tabs on our intellectual property, but sometimes it's difficult to make sure that inf...
JILL STELFOX We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long...
JILL TARTER Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had m...
JILL SCOTT The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.
JILL RUCKELSHAUS We saw Jesse Jackson the victim of a smear campaign. People remember the Dean scream that was used a...
JILL STEIN Growing up, my two favorite books were Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' and Phyllis Diller&#...
JILL DAVIS I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the seren...
JILL ABRAMSON My advice on getting a raise is what everybody's advice is: to become a confident negotiator; bu...
JILL ABRAMSON We're appalled. This city is built on tourism, and we're their last priority.
JILL JOHNSON We're appalled,
JILL JOHNSON Were appalled. This city is built on tourism, and were their last priority.
JILL JOHNSON We’re appalled, ... This city is built on tourism, and we’re their last priority.
JILL JOHNSON Hey,” Shayne said through the door. “You going to stay in there all night, because we’re getti...
JILL SHALVIS There was a group of fans who wanted autographs, and several women who managed to write their phone ...
JILL SHALVIS Sounds like you kids have some talking to do. I'll be eavesdropping from the kitchen.
JILL SHALVIS I want you to know, chickens aren’t sexy. Not to me.”
This was met with silence.
“Ar...
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