I am in the Master of Professional Writing program…

Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things…

— Robert Benchley

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.

— Jane Austen

“As Jane Austen once wrote in her diary, "I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I…

— Jim Denney

If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the…

— Patrick Rothfuss

My literary criticism has become less specifically academic. I was really writing literary history in The New Poetic, but my general practice of writing…

— Christian Karlson Stead

I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it…

— Alexander Chee

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

— Jim Goad

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see…

— David Sedaris

I would argue, for perspective's sake, that the arc of a really literary work is precisely that it both intensely reflects, and simultaneously transcends…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

There are three things I look for in a story - it has to be a thriller; I cannot see myself writing literary fiction…

— Ashwin Sanghi

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or…

— James Payn

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because…

— Mohsin Hamid

I love humor in writing, so I've written to the thing that's funny, there's the joke, but then I just kept going. I started…

— Jess Walter

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I…

— Tom Glazer