Neal Pollack Quotes

United States, Satirist
March 1, 1970

Neal Pollack is an American satirist, novelist, short story writer, and journalist. He lives in Austin, Texas. Pollack has written ten books: The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, Never Mind the Pollacks, Beneath the Axis of Evil, Alternadad, Stretch, Jewball, Downward-Facing Death,Open Your Heart, Repeat, and Keep Mars Weird. He is also a three-time Jeopardy! champion.

Also known as Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment—that which they cannot anticipate.

Neal Pollack
- People
- Expect
- Engage
Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.

Neal Pollack

I can't think of any other city that has a self-styled working class of intellectuals. Educated men who don't have college. If you hang out in bars long enough, you're gonna hear some things.

Neal Pollack
I decided that I wanted to do my own collection about a city that I knew something about.

Neal Pollack
- City
- Knew
- Collection