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… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
