Absurd Quote by Frederick Lenz

I find that I'm extremely unattracted to anything that's humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn't ring true to me,…

— Owen King

I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.

— Jami Attenberg

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a…

— David Lynch

I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes…

— Heidi Julavits

Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that you said,…

— Simon Pegg

The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal…

— Eugene Mirman

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a…

— River Phoenix

I am over that phase where any kind of story would bother me, be it personal or professional. I just laugh it off and…

— Abhay Deol

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

— Robert Olen Butler

There is always something absurd at a pivotal, tragic moment and if you observe people they do the most bizarre things at the height…

— Tara Fitzgerald

I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you're bound to take…

— Bette Midler

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted…

— Chuck Palahniuk