Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it is a completely different skill set. Mindy Kaling More Quotes by Mindy Kaling More Quotes From Mindy Kaling I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers. Mindy Kaling sneakers smart guy I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies. Mindy Kaling funny-motivational age love Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can. Mindy Kaling feelings romantic looks What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity. Mindy Kaling writing romantic past Those who are saying it's possible [to balance family and business] are often in a little bit of a rarefied place where they also have the money to do that. It's not quite such an easy stance to take when you don't have the same resources. I like to remind people that these are rich Manhattanites and to keep an eye on the fact that, especially with social media and these articles and these blogs, that that is not the reality for most women, unfortunately. Mindy Kaling media eye reality Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback. Mindy Kaling bully trying ideas There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume. Mindy Kaling ambitious lines fashion The overlap in the Venn diagram of things that men hate for women to wear and the things that I love to wear, it's almost a full overlap on the Venn diagram, which is unfortunate for me. Mindy Kaling diagrams hate men Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway. Mindy Kaling subway littles adventure There is a lot of catarsis that passes itself off as art or comedy and I'm kind of critical of that. I think that just because you bare your soul or underwear or private moments it doesn't , or necessarily make for entertainment, or good writing, or funny writing. Mindy Kaling writing art thinking As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying. Mindy Kaling adorable kids years We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women. Mindy Kaling bigs fun thinking Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children. Mindy Kaling birthday believe children Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.' Mindy Kaling boss hey four My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life. Mindy Kaling my-mom mom profound I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures. Mindy Kaling humans remember thinking I love talking about clothes with women; it's like a code because women dress for women. Mindy Kaling clothes dresses talking Of course, everyone wants to be mythologized in a great way. Mindy Kaling courses want way I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head. Mindy Kaling fantasy stories helping I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world. Mindy Kaling being-single being-alone different
