Books Quote by Dan Chiasson

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

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem…

— Rollo May

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

— Craig Ferguson

I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned…

— Victoria Chang

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to…

— Wendy Wasserstein

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

“This brings up yet another, far more important misconception: that being comically generative and having a sense of humor are one and the same…

— David Rakoff

I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.

— Kumail Nanjiani

“Preacher Henry Ward Beecher said, “A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It is jolted by every pebble…

— Ted Cunningham

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not…

— Nick Cave

Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.

— Alain de Botton

“The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing them to you.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson