Awards Quote by Neil Gaiman

Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a…

— Anonymous

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

— Haruki Murakami

People get mad at bad comedy. Way more mad than at bad novels.

— Ari Shaffir

Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader.

— Patrick Rothfuss

In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well…

— Michael Mandelbaum

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I think comedy is so much easier to do on the page than it is in real life. When I'm writing, comedy is an…

— Joshua Ferris

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

And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer…

— Karen Russell

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

— Ian Mcewan

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

— William Saroyan