Anything Quote by Elmore Leonard

I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He…

— Elmore Leonard

“Comedy is hard. In many ways, it's like singing: If you have perfect pitch, it's much easier. But you can still go a long…

— Jennifer Crusie

If the writing is good, then the writing is already funny. All you have to do is make this funny writing true to the…

— Constance Wu

Creating jokes, sometimes it's the experience of life and it's also practice and most of the time writers' help me.

— Sunil Grover

“What I will say is that you have to exercise your writing muscle. Write every day. Get better at it. Read a lot of…

— Melissa de la Cruz

Everyone who has ever met me for at least five minutes knows I'm a really funny person. I love to laugh and to make…

— Simone Elkeles

That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make it funny.

— Jason Segel

What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

— Lake Bell

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 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

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

Since I was the stupidest kid in my class, it never occurred to me to try and be perfect, so I've always been happy…

— Stephen J. Cannell