Books Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

Comedy is a difficult thing for a critic, as, unlike all other art-forms, it has an inbuilt success-o-meter: laughter. Therefore, there's no real need…

— David Baddiel

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

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

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you…

— Paul Morrissey

There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the…

— Robin Ince

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

I'm not much of a joke writer.

— Ben Falcone

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

— Michael McIntyre

What I'm doing in the work I do, I prefer not to just have a series of jokes. It's nice when audiences can connect…

— Christopher Guest

People complain that joking about serious subjects is 'making light' of them. Isn't that a good idea? Comedy lets the air out of the…

— Peter Baynham

I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.

— Jory John