If a work alienates a reader, should that be counted against it? I respect people that love 'Ulysses,' for example, but I'm on the other side of the argument. 'Ulysses' would be better if it seduced me. But I probably… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
I have blue eyes, and before I knew anything about fashion - I'm talking about the second grade - I learned I would get… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
I think a lot of writers spend years just getting up the courage to write because it seems like such a fantasy of a… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
My goal is not to make popular things. My goal is to make the things I love as popular as I can make them. — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
I think I am very proud of being associated with quality things. So if I were massively famous for doing massively beloved things, yeah,… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully. — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
I have one really nice watch. It's a white-face, stainless-steel Rolex Daytona. I wear it a lot. I got that in the middle of… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
It feels as though a very disproportionate number of main characters are writers, because that's what the writer knows. Fair enough. But nothing bothers… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
If a work alienates a reader, should that be counted against it? I respect people that love 'Ulysses,' for example, but I'm on the… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
There's always going to be one more thing. Because that's what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else is that it's infinite, it's built out of something infinite, or it feels like it is, anyway, which is the same thing to us. You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion… — B. J. Novak Copy Share
