Before Quote by Art Buchwald Download Open image “A humorist has to be taken seriously before he's considered a real writer.” — Art Buchwald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Before He Real Seriously Writer Writing
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
I think a sense of humor is the emotional equivalent of a sense of realism. One should not take everything seriously, and everybody takes… — Michael Maccoby Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time. — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being a humorist"… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Comedians who aren't screenwriters are telling jokes that they themselves think are funny. They're expressing their own view of what they think funny is. — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
I found out I'd spent my whole life believing things that weren't necessarily accurate. My sisters' memories of certain events are entirely different from… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had. — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later. — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn't know any women. — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I want to make myself and the crowd happy by way of something different, and that makes things difficult. I'm never playing something that… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
I don't like just traveling in for a short time. I've done that before, because sometimes you work for magazines and they have a… — Joe Sacco Copy Share Image
Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around,… — Banks Copy Share Image
My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is… — Joe Pitts Copy Share Image
I've been told before, and I tend to believe it, I'm not like most actresses out there. — Moira Kelly Copy Share Image
Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a… — Carrot Top Copy Share Image
But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep. — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
