More quotes by Ian Frazier

"Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece."
"With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come."
"I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces."
"Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives."
"People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor."