Books Quote by Daniel Olivas

Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here…

— Gary Shteyngart

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more…

— Ian Frazier

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's…

— Jonathan Tropper

With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

— Calvin Trillin

If I'm making myself laugh, I figure most of my readers will be amused as well.

— Jim C. Hines

“Soon after you confront the matter of preserving your identity, another question will occur to you: “Who am I writing for?” It’s a fundamental…

— William Zinsser

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more…

— William Collins

Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing,…

— William Zinsser

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which…

— Richard Russo

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to…

— Joss Whedon

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant…

— Ann Beattie

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even.…

— Robert Sheckley