Challenges Quote by James Thurber

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write.

— W. E. B. Griffin

It’s such a fun job, and it can be silly and light and about making people laugh. I think I was doing it a…

— Emma Stone

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 like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in…

— Jens Lekman

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which…

— Richard Russo

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 the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

— Aaron Belz

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more…

— Ian Frazier

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

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

— Sunil Grover

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill…

— Edna Ferber

What I'm doing when I'm doing my speaking engagements is that I'm delivering serious material with humor. So, instead of delivering humor without a…

— Andy Andrews