About Quote by Judith Viorst

“People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles…

— Anthony Liccione

I hadn't published a book of poetry in over a decade because I've been very ill. As I got better and started to write,…

— Ntozake Shange

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

Almost all comedy is of its time. You can't expect audiences now to laugh at what amused people 60 years ago.

— Denis Norden

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

— Robert Morgan

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound…

— Robert Morgan

“(W)hy is poetry wholly an elderly taste? When I was twenty I could not for the life of me read Shakespeare for pleasure; now…

— Virginia Woolf

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read…

— Caroline Kennedy

“I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.”

— X.J. Kennedy

In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle…

— Quentin Tarantino

Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.

— Thomas Lennon

“STUFF POETS STILL LIKE: POETRY”

— Amy King