I’ll cough up the bitter truth right now, at the risk of losing my Feminism Club Decoder Ring: I didn’t go see ‘Inside Out’ for Amy Poehler, though she’s terrific. I went to see my dark prince, Lewis Black. MaryJanice Davidson Read Quote
I might occasionally forget how to open a car door and have too many shower curtains, but I’ve got some standards. MaryJanice Davidson Read Quote
Among other things, Marching Band forms state that if my kid starts acting like a li’l jerkface on a trip, Marching Band can call and command me to pick up my li’l jerkface. MaryJanice Davidson Read Quote
Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band. MaryJanice Davidson Read Quote
I’ve found I can plunge the characters into whatever absurd, awful situation, and readers will follow as long as the writer makes them seem like ‘real people.’ MaryJanice Davidson Read Quote
I love interviews, meeting fans, teaching workshops, giving speeches… all of it. MaryJanice Davidson Read Quote
I love traveling, but I love the bum I married, and the bums I gave birth to, more. And the dogs. I love them, too. MaryJanice Davidson Read Quote
Magic: The Gathering is like Dungeons and Dragons if D&D was played with cards and didn’t take 18 weeks. MaryJanice Davidson Read Quote
When I wrote the first Betsy book, ‘Undead and Unwed,’ I had no idea, none, that it would be a career-defining, genre-defining book, the first of over a dozen in the series, the first of over 70 published books, the first on my road to the best-seller list, the first on my road to being published in 15 countries. MaryJanice Davidson Read Quote
I always knew I’d keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy and wriggle out of fitness classes; I always knew I’d get a zillion rejection slips. I figured I’d write part time while working various full-time office jobs, and maybe, maybe in my 50s, I’d be able to quit and try writing full time. MaryJanice Davidson Read Quote
