Humor Quote by Elmore Leonard

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

— Elmore Leonard

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

I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become…

— Elmore Leonard

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me…

— Lee Pace

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he…

— Leslie Fiedler

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to…

— Joss Whedon

Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's…

— Elif Batuman

I like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow.

— Wesley Clark

I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.

— Truman Capote

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots…

— Steven Moffat

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

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and…

— Hunter S. Thompson