Freedom Quote by John Adams

Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.

— Erica Jong

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

— Alice Meynell

I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.

— Dawn Powell

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

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

...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to…

— Zadie Smith

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven…

— Jules Renard

I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I…

— Nick Tosches

When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.

— Jean Rhys

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my…

— W. E. B. Griffin

It is my greatest wish to teach children what I now believe: that writing is not a burden but a joy.

— Rebecca Serle