Form Quote by Leo Rosten

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's…

— Garrison Keillor

A humorist has to be taken seriously before he's considered a real writer.

— Art Buchwald

Humor is the pensiveness of wit.

— Robert Aris Willmott

Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the…

— Oscar W. Firkins

With humor you have so many options with topics and length, I mean I can write humor essays in books now and they can…

— Dave Barry

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

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the…

— George Murray

I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.

— Dick Gregory

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

— Max Eastman

Humor is like a rhythm; it's like music. And you throw a couple of extra syllables in, you wreck the beat and you kill…

— Betty White

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

— Herman Wouk

Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things…

— Robert Benchley