About Quote by Tom Wolfe

Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.

— Allison Silverman

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see…

— David Sedaris

Its really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, I usually dont like female comedians, but your…

— Chelsea Peretti

Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness.

— Jim Gaffigan

Humor relies on the traditions of a society. It takes what we know and it twists it. ... Because women are on the ground…

— Liza Donnelly

I think everyone has their own style in journalism. Look, I'm a girl from the South! Sometimes I laugh. Someone can pejoratively call it…

— Sarah Lacy

It's really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, 'I usually don't like female comedians, but your…

— Chelsea Peretti

You have to have humor. If you don't have humor and you take yourself seriously, you're dead in the water. You have to be…

— Anthony Hopkins

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

— Nellie Bly

When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily…

— Rainbow Rowell

Women, a lot of the time, are so much funnier than men, but they just choose not to do comedy for a living.

— Ali Wong

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

— Rachel Zucker