Latest Drew Magary Quotes from Interviews

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• My job happens to be sports-related, so it's like my duty to watch football. It's my job. But that's not a change for me. When you're 18, it's life and death, because you don't have a kid, and it's a much bigger deal when you're 18. Having a kid - when the Vikings lost the 2009 NFC title game, it sucked, and I'm not happy about it, but my kid is still alive. You have to have that horrible forced perspective that you don't want.

  Drew Magary

  Sports, Football, Jobs

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I occasionally get glimpses, but I have to reprioritize, because that's how it naturally progresses - things like family, responsibilities, and your job all take precedent.

  Drew Magary

  Jobs, Responsibility, Progress

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm always amazed by people like David Simon or the people at The Simpsons or J.K. Rowling who can create dozens and dozens of memorable characters. It seems so effortless, and even people who have just three lines in the shows or in the book have a very distinct personality, and you can feel the richness of their personal history.

  Drew Magary

  Book, Memorable, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When you're 18, when you're at college, sports can be your life. You can watch every baseball game, every college basketball game, every football game. Once you have a family and kids, you can't do that anymore.

  Drew Magary

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Source: www.avclub.com

• If you have a great characters, you can always have your character do nothing or do something stupid, and people will still follow them, because they're so real and so tangible.

  Drew Magary

  Real, Stupid, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

• On the Internet, Spencer Hall at Everyday Should Be Saturday is the best writer in the universe. He's very funny. They're jokes about college football, but they come from somebody who's clearly smarter than the rest of us; it's always fun to get your jokes from someone who's a genius.

  Drew Magary

  Football, Fun, College

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I posted some story about the Arizona State baseball coach getting into a fight with an autograph hound, and it was a disastrous thing. The guy rescinded his story. It proved to me that I'm not cut out to be a proper journalist. I'm much better sitting around and making fun of journalists and telling them what terrible journalists they are than being an actual journalist.

  Drew Magary

  Baseball, Fun, Fighting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Once ESPN leaves you, and you don't have a foothold anywhere else, you're done. It's very hard to do anything else, because in some ways, they're the only game in town.

  Drew Magary

  Games, Done, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I don't know how a culture is going to evolve, but I think the way the Internet works now is, people go to the Internet to laugh and have a good time. That's why Tumblr feeds and I Can Has Cheezburger and memes get thrown into the blender with real news and sports news and politics and that stuff.

  Drew Magary

  Sports, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• You're going to have Yahoo! and places that don't have rights being much more aggressive in how sports news is covered.

  Drew Magary

  Sports, Rights, News

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I had to be happy with the process of writing.Each step you take is more rewarding than the one before.

  Drew Magary

  Writing, Steps, Process

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Thank God there's somebody that doesn't like Stuart Scott. I'm so happy!. It was nice to have that counter-balance to ESPN.

  Drew Magary

  Nice, Balance, Thank God

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I found that life for me gets a lot more serious as you get older. You start off young and happy and smiling and "Wooo! I'm having fun!" And then you get married, and that's very serious, and you have kids, and that's very, very serious. So as you get older, you start thinking about passing away, and that becomes extremely serious.

  Drew Magary

  Fun, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think I liked writing a novel better. Obviously, it's more rewarding. It's that marathon thing where it sucks when you're doing it, but you're proud of yourself at the end, and you've done it, and at the very least, nobody can take that away from you.

  Drew Magary

  Writing, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The idea for me came when I was watching a 60 Minutes segment about resveratrol, the chemical in red wine that lets you live longer, supposedly. And they were like, "Who knows, maybe one day it will help to cure aging." And I thought, "Well, if they did that, we'd all kill each other." And then I laughed, and then I thought about how precisely that would happen. That's how the book came to be.

  Drew Magary

  Book, Wine, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I took time in the day to write as much of the book as I possibly could. I didn't write too much at night, because I don't like to - I'd rather watch TV.

  Drew Magary

  Book, Writing, Night

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I've always found that the best things I've ever written, or the things I like the most that I've written, are things where it's a pure idea, and you just follow it and put it down and see if it works.

  Drew Magary

  Ideas, Down And, Found

  Source: www.avclub.com

• With toilet books, people don't review them that much. They don't really pay much attention to them. It's just like, "Oh, okay. I'll put this in your stocking."

  Drew Magary

  Book, People, Attention

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I wanted to write a book that maybe had the potential to go beyond the Deadspin and KSK [Kissing Suzy Kolber] readership.

  Drew Magary

  Book, Writing, Kissing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think it's the next thing, getting out of the comfort-zone readership, that at some point you have to try and break out of that and see if you can go in new directions. I wanted to do something that felt a lot bigger than a book that's going to sit on a toilet.

  Drew Magary

  Book, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I've hated cockroaches my entire life.Tweeting jokes about it helps me cope, in a way. I'm not as jumpy killing cave crickets as I used to be. I still jump plenty though.

  Drew Magary

  Cockroaches, Caves, Way

  Source: postgradproblems.com

• I know I still had to take money from my parents, because no one can afford to live in Manhattan, not even the rich people.

  Drew Magary

  People, Parent, Manhattan

  Source: postgradproblems.com

• You always worry and you always fear what's next. But you eventually just push forward knowing you can't really do much about getting rid of the anxiety. You see people get pets after their kids leave the house because they're so used to having something around to dote on and worry about.

  Drew Magary

  Kids, Knowing, People

  Source: postgradproblems.com

• You need to be funny in a way that people feel like you're trying to make a deeper connection. So that's what I try to do.

  Drew Magary

  People, Trying, Connections

  Source: postgradproblems.com

• I was strangely looking forward to writing about my DUI arrest, only because I've known for four years that I was gonna write about it somehow. I dunno that it was "fun" to write, just something I'd been aching to purge from my system.

  Drew Magary

  Fun, Writing, Years

  Source: postgradproblems.com