Humor Quote by Roseanne Barr

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

— Denis Norden

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

— Celia Rivenbark

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 never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to…

— Joss Whedon

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

— Jane Austen

Whatever I did, I always gravitated toward trying to be funny. If I was with friends, we were joking around. If I wrote for…

— Colin Jost

I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

— Jeff Lindsay

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

— Aaron Belz

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

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 envy guys who can write funny.

— Frank Sinatra Jr