I don't actually feel multi-talented. I just feel that I'm in this business where we give ourselves 100 titles and gold statues. It's like, lawyers aren't like, 'You're incredible! You're a professional arguer in front of the judge! You're great at paperwork!' No, you just get credit for one job.
More Quotes by B. J. Novak
If a work alienates a reader, should that be counted against it? I respect people that love 'Ulysses,' for example, but I'm on the other side of the argument. 'Ulysses' would be better if it seduced me. But I probably have the minority point of view.
I like jeans, but I think in 100 years it's going to be crazy when we look back at the fact that everyone, every day for about 60 years straight, wore stiff blue pants as their default. Why?
There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.
Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
I do not have very much office experience.
Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.