Dorothy Parker Quotes

My mother says I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. I love to talk. I just love to talk.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

I wish I had a funny story.

Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

I love a girl with a sense of humor. Someone who can make me laugh and that I can get along with and talk with and who is just sweet overall, inside and out.

A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.

I love stories. I loved stories when I was a kid. My mom read stories to me all the time.

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love.

What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.

Any story is better with a little love in it, right?

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.

I love watching how people who are in love with each other deal with each other. Every time I've had a fight with an ex-girlfriend, at the time they're horrible, but when I look back they're often funny and weird, and that kind of stuff makes me laugh.

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.

Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.

Every funny story has at least one unusual thing in it.

I was sort of a loner as a kid, so radio was where I turned for companionship. I loved the music and how the DJs talked about the artists and used words to paint pictures to evoke emotion.

Almost every story has a romantic angle to it.

I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.