Humorists Quote by P. G. Wodehouse

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

— Art Buchwald

“To call such persons "humorists", a loose-fitting and ugly word, is to miss the nature of their dilemma and the dilemma of their nature.”

— James Thurber

Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they…

— James Thurber

“Stop to read good writers who are witty and are fun, 'cause that's the kind of fuel on which your Train of Thought will…

— Mister Lemur

Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.

— Thomas Lansing Masson

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

— F. Sionil Jose

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

— Alec-Tweedie

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which…

— Richard Russo

Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage…

— Matt Fraction

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

— Mandy Patinkin

All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.

— Felice Picano

I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short…

— Patrick deWitt