Humor Quote by Diane Johnson Download Open image “Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.” — Diane Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humor Inspirational Novel Wicked Witty Writing Written
Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with a prose… — Christine Schutt Copy Share Image
I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams. — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around. — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Hay has intelligence coming out of her fingertips - integrity, insight, and wonder in every paragraph of her writing.She connects. She stirs and… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“What are you, beyond the collection of the things you've done, said and thought? Happily, much comfort is to be found in the Good… — Belle Dejour Copy Share Image
One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I know the bestseller 'Gone Girl' doesn't need an ounce of support from me, but that book was as sharp and witty as they… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“An exceptional book to read on! The author has a writing style and cared! I do not tell you more click on this book… — Le Douarec Philippe Copy Share Image
Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart. — Adrianne Palicki Copy Share Image
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other. — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is. — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
...is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of? — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
“Men are generally more law-abiding than women. Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
“Well, their piety is more evolved,” said Mrs. Pace. “In America we have only two forms, as Matthew Arnold said: the bitter and the… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person. — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
“Yet—some Frenchman had written—“absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones.” — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
“It didn't seem fair that you could not prevent being the object of other people's emotions, you were not safe from their hate--or from… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy. — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants. — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
“...I haven't guessed where your shirt is from yet Bane, but I don't think it'll matter once it's underwater!' Tristan looked at Bane questioningly.… — S.K. Munt Copy Share Image
“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.” — Markus Herz Copy Share Image
“Not wise, perhaps, to be rude to the Pope's favorite son, but my viper tongue still required a fool now and then on which… — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
“ “Do Southerners laugh at different things than Northerners do? Yes, I say--Northerners.” Roy Blount, Jr., Roy Blount’s Book of Southern Humor” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
