Books Quote by Haruki Murakami

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

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 usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels.

— Eden Robinson

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

One thing that's really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people writing me…

— Christopher Moore

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

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

— Ian Mcewan

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

With humor you have so many options with topics and length, I mean I can write humor essays in books now and they can…

— Dave Barry

As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.

— Colson Whitehead

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

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

— Anonymous