Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

“She is a tyrant much in the way of a bad novelist, who shapes his characters according to his own ideology or desires and…

— Azar Nafisi

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

— Jonathan Stroud

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he…

— Andre Gide

Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters…

— Sacha Baron Cohen

I think to compare Germany to the Third Reich is utterly ludicrous.

— Tariq Ali

Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and…

— Matt Ridley

“If it was occasionally ludicrous, it was always sublime. [Estelle Jussim on the 19th century Cult of the Beautiful.] ”

— Estelle Jussim

“The idea of spilling blood for the sake of oil would have seemed ludicrous.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous…

— Andrew Solomon

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and…

— Aldous Huxley

“Would that I were still a ludicrous character in his lousy book!”

— Philip Roth

Obviously, I've made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that's the way I always was.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a delusional Housewife in possession of an audience must be in want of a ludicrous storyline.

— Carole Radziwill

Banning sports is a ludicrous proposition.

— Mary Pilon

What puzzles me is the way that some of the smaller, unknown chateaux imagine that because Chinese millionaires pay ludicrous sums for the great…

— Simon Hoggart