Personal Topics Quotes

Best strategy for a first date is to ask her questions. Just keeping asking her questions about herself. Her life, her job, her friends, her taste in movies and music and everything. People mostly just want to talk about themselves, so let her do that.

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

I don't like to talk about myself.

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

I interviewed more than 100 women about their sisters, but if they also had brothers, I asked them to compare. Most said they talked to their sisters more often, at greater length and, yes, about more personal topics. This often meant that they felt closer to their sisters, but not always.

I'd love to write more observational comedy but the stuff people seem to respond to is the most personal so it's snowballed from there.

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

I love how a story can help someone discuss something they otherwise would not.

Novels are a safe way to talk about things.

I am not into self-exploration. My family would lose their eyes in the backs of their heads if people talked about personal journeys or finding oneself.

For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.