Kind Quote by Deb Olin Unferth

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

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

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 afraid that the act of writing is so scary and anxiety-filled that I never laugh at all. In fact, when people tell me…

— Cynthia Ozick

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

I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh my God,…

— David Mandel

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of…

— Lee Hall

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

The thing I try to get across to the writers - and I do a lot of writing, too - is that when I…

— Chris Rock

So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life - my molestation,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the…

— Ian Frazier