Book Quote by Dave Barry

I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in…

— Jens Lekman

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

— Celia Rivenbark

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

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

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

I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.

— Jane Austen

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

Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to…

— Betty White

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

— Rachel Zucker

Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in…

— Richard L. Evans

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

— Haruki Murakami

Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the…

— Oscar W. Firkins