Book Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

There were some particular themes that I knew I wanted to hit, and when I got deeper into the project I found that it…

— Moshe Kasher

I think one of the dangers of humor is becoming seduced by it and sacrificing the story for a few laughs.

— Matthew Healy

I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in…

— Stephenie Meyer

Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The…

— John Gould

I'm being provided with some emotional ballast by giving me an intimate portrait of one character in particular in contrast to the collective. I'm…

— Joshua Ferris

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

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

— Haruki Murakami

And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer…

— Karen Russell

I can't not put humor in a book.

— Albert Brooks

Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important part of…

— Joshua Ferris

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

— Zadie Smith

I think my books are lighter and funnier than some of the big series out there. You may not walk away from my books…

— Molly Harper