Books Quote by Amitava Kumar Download Open image “I don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.” — Amitava Kumar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Friend Friendship Funny He Humor She Think Writing
Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice. — Michael McIntyre Copy Share Image
All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world. — Ron White Copy Share Image
I've got quite a few friends in the comedy world as you meet a lot of people. — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
“A writer is a dangerous friend. Everything you say, all of your life and experience, is fodder for our writing. We mean you no… — Randy Murray Copy Share Image
People who have picture-perfect upbringings and lives tend not to be funny. I don't think they write from a position of pain. — Alex Borstein Copy Share Image
Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people. — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I thought I'd be the first to introduce herbal tea to Patna. White tea, ginger tea, rooibos, camomile. No one touched it. On subsequent… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
We live in a cynical system where the powerful are able to exploit the demand of the aggressive few, from whichever religion or group,… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of ideological camps,… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?' — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Does the entry of Indian H-1B worker augur a change in the relations of production in the world of cybertechnology? No, but the presence… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes.… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
