Books Quote by William Collins

Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in…

— Richard L. Evans

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the…

— Ian Frazier

Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very…

— James Fadiman

I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a funny line.

— Hannes Holm

Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to…

— Sid Fleischman

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity…

— Diane Keaton

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem…

— Rollo May

To me, humor is part of a conversation with an audience.

— Scott Avett

Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to…

— Betty White

I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in…

— Jens Lekman

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

— Anonymous

Humor is just making fun of a situation. But humor is what gets people through a lot of things.

— Nate Bargatze