Anything Quote by Joss Whedon

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

— Celia Rivenbark

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

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

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 am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.

— Jane Austen

I find that I'm extremely unattracted to anything that's humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn't ring true to me,…

— Owen King

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

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's…

— Jonathan Tropper

Everyone who has ever met me for at least five minutes knows I'm a really funny person. I love to laugh and to make…

— Simone Elkeles

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

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

— Roseanne Barr

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