Courses Quote by George Saunders

I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily…

— Avi

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

I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh my God,…

— David Mandel

The thing I try to get across to the writers - and I do a lot of writing, too - is that when I…

— Chris Rock

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 aim to be funny. I'm always just focused on telling the story authentically, and if that affects people sometimes through laughter, then…

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their…

— Marty Nemko

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'm afraid that the act of writing is so scary and anxiety-filled that I never laugh at all. In fact, when people tell me…

— Cynthia Ozick

Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as…

— Art Buchwald

I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything about it. I have written one…

— Anthony Burgess

“So, reader, should you ever find yourself writing about the world, take care not to nibble at the many tempting symbols she sets squarely…

— John Barth