Chance Quote by Zooey Deschanel

I regret the stories we didn't do - the stories that we knew about and talked about but didn't have all of, so didn't…

— Nick Denton

I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

— Zadie Smith

I think 'Gatsby' is hobbled, in part, by its status as a Great American Novel. People kind of roll their eyes before they've even…

— Susan Choi

The thing you realize pretty quickly, though, is that being in front of an audience whose job it is to laugh is a big…

— Eric McCormack

I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in…

— Carrie Fisher

Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s masterwork…

— Jonathan Yardley

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.

— William H. Macy

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

— Sinclair Lewis

Sedaris is an American humourist and one of the authors I go back to most often. His books contain observations on life, quite anecdotal…

— Rebecca Front

I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.

— Jennifer Aniston

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

— John Green

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

— Michael McIntyre