--- title: "4 Neal Pollack Quotes - Famous Novelist (Lit Riffs)" description: "Neal Pollack is an American satirist, novelist, short story writer, and journalist. He lives in Austin, Texas. Browse 4 Neal Pollack quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-neal-pollack-70609.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Neal Pollack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-neal-pollack-70609.jpg) # Neal Pollack (1970) Novelist United States **4** quotes in **10** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Neal Pollack is a novelist from the United States, best known for *Lit Riffs*. ## Quick Facts About Neal Pollack Born March 1, 1970 Nationality United States Profession Novelist Notable works Lit Riffs ## About Neal Pollack Neal Pollack is an American satirist, novelist, short story writer, and journalist. He lives in Austin, Texas. Pollack has written 10 books: The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, Never Mind the Pollacks, Beneath the Axis of Evil, Alternadad, Stretch, Jewball, Downward-Facing Death, Open Your Heart, Repeat, and Keep Mars Weird. He is also a three-time Jeopardy! champion. ## Quotes by Neal Pollack > [Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-pollack/television-characters-live-inside-our-minds-as-though-they-re-actual/) [Neal Pollack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-pollack/) [Character](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/character/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4d/neal-pollack-69447_character_television-characters-live-inside-our-mi_408626.jpg) > [“That sounded a lot more appetizing than my aging cynicism, complete lack of interest in others, and lifetime of enthusiastic immersion in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-pollack/that-sounded-a-lot-more-appetizing-than-my-aging-cynicism-complete/) [Neal Pollack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-pollack/) [Best self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/best-self/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab8/neal-pollack-69447_best-self_that-sounded-a-lot-more-appetizing-than_651037.jpg) > [“Most fan fiction is terrible.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-pollack/most-fan-fiction-is-terrible/) [Neal Pollack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-pollack/) [Fan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c3/neal-pollack-69447_fan_most-fan-fiction-is-terrible-1597114_1597114.jpg) > [“to hell. You could beat up Jews with”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-pollack/to-hell-you-could-beat-up-jews-with/) [Neal Pollack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-pollack/) [Beat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beat/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f4/neal-pollack-69447_judaism_to-hell-you-could-beat-up-jews-with-1817_1817755.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-pollack/#itemlist", "name": "Neal Pollack Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. 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