Laurie Notaro Quotes

United States, Writer
1960

Laurie Notaro (born aft. 1960 in Brooklyn, New York) is a #1 New York Times best-selling American writer. She co-founded Planet Magazine, and was a senior editor at Tucson Monthly. Notaro was a columnist for ten years at The Arizona Republic. She is now with Simon & Schuster publishers with the Gallery imprint.Numerous articles, essays, and novels have followed, and she was a finalist for The Thurber Award for American Humor. She has written for The New York Times, Glamour, BARK Magazine, USA Today, Village Voice Media, and BUST.

Also known as Journalist

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.

Laurie Notaro
- Job
- Write
- Funeral
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.

Laurie Notaro
- Up
- Work
- Believe

I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.

Laurie Notaro
- Up
- Good
- Writing
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.

Laurie Notaro
- Up
- Done
I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.

Laurie Notaro