Calm Quote by Kiersten White

Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun."

— Ian Bogost

Fun is just another word for learning.

— Raph Koster

“Ladies and gentlemen, may I suggest you let fun out of your lives? For it is, brothers and sisters, a mongrel word, an ersatz…

— Terry Pratchett

I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.

— Tom Waits

I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you…

— Elmore Leonard

I jokingly refer to the word 'gourmet' as the 'g' word.

— Arthur Schwartz

Fun stands for finally understnding nothing. And that's what's fun about fun, you don't have to get it.

— Gary Busey

“If you feel suddenly so anxious for laugh, then it's too late to find ha-ha in dictionary.”

— Toba Beta

Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of…

— Ian Bogost

A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant minor masterpiece.…

— Maureen Corrigan

When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.

— Ian Bogost

The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word funeral.

— Rachel Cohn