Being real Quote by Alan Lightman

I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen:…

— Ilona Andrews

I have quite a close relationship with violence and horror. They are enjoyable and terrible. I try and offset the horror with a sense…

— Evie Wyld

All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're dealing with…

— Chukwudi Iwuji

But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is…

— Georgette Heyer

I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear…

— Stephen King

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

— Philip K. Dick

...a story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift the people's…

— Ryukishi07

I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny. I think that life is very dark at times, and there are things that…

— Brett Gelman

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we…

— Upamanyu Chatterjee

I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.

— Robin Williams

Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual…

— Nikki Sixx

Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for…

— Elbert Hubbard