Book Quote by Jory John Download Open image “I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.” — Jory John ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Humor Instinct Jokes Writing Writing humor
As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny. — Peter David Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the… — David Chase Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
If you try to go for a laugh, it's death to the comedy. Personally, that's how I approach comedy. But I'm no expert. — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also a possibility… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a funny line. — Hannes Holm Copy Share Image
If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty. — Olivia Munn Copy Share Image
A lot of times, comedy writers will go for the gay joke, and I've been vocal about saying, 'Go for the smart joke.' — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Using humor as a wedge into different kinds of stories is my go-to. I think anything I do would have some sort of streak… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Mac [Barnett] and I prank each other during our presentation. We show baby pictures of each other looking completely ridiculous. I can't believe the frilly shirt that I'm in, and Mac's wearing a sailor suit and playing a toy piano. That's a perfect example of a good prank, where we have three hundred people literally laughing in our faces, three… — Jory John Copy Share
Mac [Barnett ] and I have been friends for more than ten years. We met working at an educational nonprofit. And we have been… — Jory John Copy Share Image
Mac [Barnett]and I both had times when we moved, started new schools, and we know how hard that was, figuring out your identity and… — Jory John Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
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