Ian Frazier

Quotes

• “With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard,...”
• “Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does...”
• “I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor...”
• “Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.”
• “I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.”
• “People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.”