"There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone."

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I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was true of the essay, too. If you'd actually tried to be true to the essay, it would have been, perhaps, boring. So taking that narrow little cast of characters and expanding it out, that was what was exciting about the project for me.

— Jonathan Franzen