About Quote by John Bishop

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

— Doris Lessing

When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

— Michael Buble

I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and…

— Steven Wright

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

— Rich Mullins

People who have picture-perfect upbringings and lives tend not to be funny. I don't think they write from a position of pain.

— Alex Borstein

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

If you're contriving something, if you're making something up, it's not funny. You can tell. It's instant. It has to come from someplace real.

— Jane Lynch

Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to…

— Mike White

One second here and there will make all the difference between something being funny and not being funny. That's why I like going, 'Well,…

— Jonathan Krisel

I want to be funny. When I first started writing, I didn't find my stories funny, but people kept saying they were. It kind…

— Deb Olin Unferth

If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.

— James Dickey

I laugh when I'm writing. I feel like all my work is funny to me.

— Micah Perks