Author: Michael Patrick King

Quotes

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.

- Michael Patrick King

People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

- Michael Patrick King

Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.

Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.

- Michael Patrick King

I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.

I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.

- Michael Patrick King

Who's to say where funny stops and 'too far' starts?

Who's to say where funny stops and 'too far' starts?

- Michael Patrick King

I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths.

I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths.

- Michael Patrick King

Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.

Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.

- Michael Patrick King

People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

- Michael Patrick King

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

- Michael Patrick King

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