Acceptable Quote by Robert Sheckley

In terms of whether I use humor to allow me or my readers to come up for air, I don't think I put that…

— Daniel Olivas

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

In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the…

— S. J. Perelman

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

— Roseanne Barr

I probably would never be able to direct a comedy because I'm not that funny. I don't have that funny bone in me, so…

— Luke Scott

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

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

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

— Lena Dunham

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

— Jane Austen

I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.

— Jane Austen

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'm afraid that the act of writing is so scary and anxiety-filled that I never laugh at all. In fact, when people tell me…

— Cynthia Ozick