Anxiety Quote by Alain de Botton

Part of my writing style can be attributed to my mother's impatience with comedy, because whenever I told her a story she would say,…

— Patricia Marx

After my first novel, my mother said to me, 'Why don't you make your writing more funny? You're so funny in person.' Because my…

— Jonathan Ames

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

I'm afraid that the act of writing is so scary and anxiety-filled that I never laugh at all. In fact, when people tell me…

— Cynthia Ozick

I can't not put humor in a book.

— Albert Brooks

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

— Rachel Zucker

I know what I want to talk about, but I don't really know what's funny about a joke until I perform it in front…

— James Acaster

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

— Rita Rudner

I never aim to be funny. I'm always just focused on telling the story authentically, and if that affects people sometimes through laughter, then…

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh my God,…

— David Mandel

I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.

— Jory John

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

— Doris Lessing