Dark Quote by Lucie Brock-Broido

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

I just know from experience that reading a funny poem aloud, especially at the beginning of a public reading, can have a certain effect.…

— Matthew Zapruder

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

— Doris Lessing

I'm more than a little suspicious of humor in poems, because I think it can at times be a way of getting a reaction…

— Matthew Zapruder

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

I find it strange that - at least in my take on it - the people who are the most alarmed about the dire…

— Billy Collins

That being said, some of my favorite poets are extremely funny. The aforementioned Matt Rohrer, for instance. Mary Ruefle. James Tate might be the…

— Matthew Zapruder

Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre.…

— Aaron Belz

After my first novel, my mother said to me, 'Why don't you make your writing more funny? You're so funny in person.' Because my…

— Jonathan Ames

and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the…

— Charles Bukowski

I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything about it. I have written one…

— Anthony Burgess

When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.

— John Prine