Hard Quote by David Sedaris

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

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

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

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

— Rachel Zucker

I think if you write humor, then people don't - you know - they don't give you that much credit. They tend to think…

— David Sedaris

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

— Richard Armour

I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a funny line.

— Hannes Holm

It's very hard to write humor.

— Mark Strand

In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the…

— S. J. Perelman

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

When you work with people and are friends with them also, you have more of a shorthand. I think people relax more and it…

— Andy Samberg

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