“I would like to recommend that all writers live in
California, because here, in between those moments when one is looking into the
heart of a rose, one can look up at the calming blue sky. I feel sorry for
writers—and there are some pretty famous ones—who live in places like South
America and Czechoslovakia, where I imagine it gets pretty dank. These writers
are easy to spot. Their books are often filled with disease and negativity. If
you're going to write about disease, I would say California is the place to do
it. Dwarfism is never funny, but look at what happened when it was dealt with
in California. Seven happy dwarfs. Can you imagine seven dwarfs in
Czechoslovakia? You would get seven melancholic dwarfs at best—seven
melancholic dwarfs and no handicap-parking spaces.”—American actor-writer Steve
Martin, “Writing is Easy!” in Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from “The New Yorker,” edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder
(2001)
(Photo of Steve Martin taken by David Shankbone at
the premiere of Baby Mama in New York
City at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, Apr. 23, 2008.)
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