I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think…

I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

— Ray Bradbury

I was stressing when 'Hot to Go' came out because I was like, 'People are not going to take me seriously as a writer.'

— Chappell Roan

While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't…

— Alice Munro

“The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.”

— A.E. Poynor

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as…

— Jonathan Franzen

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

— Samuel Butler

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

— C. S. Lewis

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.

— Paul Prudhomme

I have not been taken seriously as an actor.

— Payal Rohatgi

Life is too serious to be taken seriously.

— Mike Leonard

There have been occasions when some people have taken me very seriously.

— Limmy

I want to be taken seriously as a musician.

— Jonah Marais

Being taken seriously was always the biggest challenge.

— Nancy Wilson

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

— Gloria Steinem

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

— Billy Wilder