61 Quotes by Janet Varney

When you're a writer, if you're very lucky, you create these characters that you fall in love with, and you feel like they're guiding you rather than you guiding them.

The good thing about being in San Francisco is it's a city that seems to have the flexibility and undefined boundaries.

Gabriel Diani has been my friend and collaborator for 14 years. He and Etta Devine are two of my favorite people and two of my favorite creative minds.

It's possible the only thing I love more than working with Gabe Diani and Etta Devine is humiliating myself on film for all to see.

I was raised by a dad who has a fantastic sense of humor who raised me on 'The Muppet Show,' Steve Martin movies, and Woody Allen's standup, and he really encouraged me to ham it up from an early age.

I have such respect and awe for journalists who are able to communicate important information to the masses without sobbing.

I have such sister compassion for women in uniform in life, principally, because now I know how incredibly uncomfortable those uniforms are on top of all the other things they're dealing with that are far more important.

I just want to be Patty McCormack. I want to spend every year aging the way she has.

Both my parents were high school teachers, and they were beloved high school teachers, so I constantly meet people through my dad's life where they'd be like, 'Your dad changed my life. He's the reason I became a lawyer. He's the reason I started writing. He's the only reason I stayed in school.'