B. J. Novak

I have blue eyes, and before I knew anything about fashion - I'm talking about the second grade - I learned I…

— B. J. Novak

I think a lot of writers spend years just getting up the courage to write because it seems like such a fantasy…

— B. J. Novak

My goal is not to make popular things. My goal is to make the things I love as popular as I can…

— B. J. Novak

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

— B. J. Novak

I think I am very proud of being associated with quality things. So if I were massively famous for doing massively beloved…

— B. J. Novak

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform…

— B. J. Novak

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

— B. J. Novak

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…

— B. J. Novak

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

— B. J. Novak

It feels as though a very disproportionate number of main characters are writers, because that's what the writer knows. Fair enough. But…

— B. J. Novak

If a work alienates a reader, should that be counted against it? I respect people that love 'Ulysses,' for example, but I'm…

— B. J. Novak

There's always going to be one more thing. Because that's what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else…

— B. J. Novak

I remember my mum coming into my bedroom when I was lying awake one night, and she asked what I was thinking…

— B. J. Novak

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

— B. J. Novak

Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every…

— B. J. Novak

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found…

— B. J. Novak

I feel like there's a voice in my head, always, telling me every idea is brilliant, and another telling me every idea…

— B. J. Novak

The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance…

— B. J. Novak

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

— B. J. Novak

I do not have very much office experience.

— B. J. Novak

If I could go to dinner with one person, alive or dead, I think I would choose alive.

— B. J. Novak

“The Walk to School on the Day After Labor Day I was sad that summer was over. But I was happy that…

— B. J. Novak

I don't actually feel multi-talented. I just feel that I'm in this business where we give ourselves 100 titles and gold statues.…

— B. J. Novak

Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.

— B. J. Novak

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then…

— B. J. Novak