Laurie Notaro
Laurie Notaro
Laurie Notarois a #1 New York Times best-selling American writer. Notaro was raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in Journalism. Notaro was a columnist for ten years at The Arizona Republic. In October of 2001, The Idiot Girls’ Action Adventure Club was picked up by Random House which resulted in eleven books. She is now with Simon & Schuster publishers with the Gallery imprint. Numerous articles, essays, and novels have followed. She currently...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
I want a man as nice as my retarded dog, but one that doesn't crap on the floor.
I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.
I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was.
If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something blocks one route, find another. Never give up.
I have more faith in my bra than I have in my accountant.
Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touching--and does it all seamlessly. Sh*t My Dad Says is a really, really funny book.
Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.
My family were staunch believers in physical violence, not automatic violence, and we had a Safeway around the corner, so we never really needed to kill anything.
Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.
I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.
I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.
I bought an electric-powered chain saw with a plug-in cord so if I run away fast enough, you can only chase me so far.
Bad boyfriends don't disguise themselves; their girlfriends do it for them.
Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.