Age Quote by Jerome K. Jerome

I can't not put humor in a book.

— Albert Brooks

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

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

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

I am not a trained writer and I don't think anyone would accuse me of being a funny person. But I feel God has…

— Vantile Whitfield

I don't see much comedy in the Bible, where people are writing about funny people. It's not there.

— Bill Cosby

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's…

— Garrison Keillor

I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short…

— Patrick deWitt

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

— John Cleese

No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the…

— S. J. Perelman

Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for…

— Joe Randazzo