Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I think that by the time I start writing the third book, of course, I will be President Of The United States,… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
When you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
By the time I was writing the second book, my life had changed rather dramatically, thanks to the intervention of television, and… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross;… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I'm an older, wall-eyed, overweight, tweedy writer who has been lucky enough to be asked to play various iterations of himself in… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
You know, I began my life as a creative person writing true things for magazines and telling some very honest, straightforward personal… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable. — John Hodgman Copy Share
I navigated the world as a hedge maze of constant fear and worry in which I might take the wrong turn and jeopardize the… — John Hodgman Copy Share
“There are transitions in life whether we want them or not. You get older. You lose jobs and loves and people. The story of… — John Hodgman Copy Share
John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald meet in hell and team up to assassinate Satan. — John Hodgman Copy Share
I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy. — John Hodgman Copy Share
If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is… — John Hodgman Copy Share
Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures,… — John Hodgman Copy Share
I've made my evolutionary purpose and had children. I don't care if anybody likes me, I'm going to do what I want to do.… — John Hodgman Copy Share
“When you live in New York or any big city, it is easy to fail at growing up. The city is designed to keep… — John Hodgman Copy Share
You wouldn't want to live a life in which you are loved or approved by all people on Earth or even within your own… — John Hodgman Copy Share
Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great. — John Hodgman Copy Share
I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.' — John Hodgman Copy Share
One of the things about crowd work that's so exciting is when you discover a character in the audience who's interesting or funny, who… — John Hodgman Copy Share
“Maine is not a death cult. I mean, it is, but it's a slow one. It creeps in like the tide, and without your… — John Hodgman Copy Share
