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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
All humor is rooted in pain.
I do have a dirty sense of humor.
Humor is an antidote to all ills.
Humor is wit and love.
It [humor] inhabits the marginal.
Humor is a serious business.
Humor comes from self-confidence.
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for.
I like to erase lines between categories. Why separate cookbook writing from writing, healthy from good tasting? I want to be open to possibilities.
Humor is very healing.
Humor is not far from my vocabulary.
My first true lesson in writing came from Mr. Bowden when I was 16. At my high school, he was the teacher known to be the very best at literature and writing.
To me, cooking is man's natural activity. But I think writing is really hard. Certainly writing fiction is the hardest thing I've ever done.
I enjoyed writing stories whenever there was call to do it at school, and started writing bad poetry when I was doing my GCSEs - like most people, I think.
I have a dark sense of humor.
You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.
The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.
If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.
Cynicism is the humor of hatred.
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
Humor is the mask of wisdom.
My humor was Victorian - and still is.
I can't not put humor in a book.
Humor is my default mode.
Humor is all about timing.
Humor is a part of spirituality.
The secret to humor is surprise.
I think my goal is to find a way to spend all of my time writing. I mean, sort of; true success is I'm doing nothing but writing if I do my job correctly.
Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.
Humor is the pensiveness of wit.
For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
Humor was the enemy of desire.
Is there a tumor in your humor?
I have enjoyed writing songs for so long... it felt like in order to make music that I could relate to myself, I would have to be a part of the writing process.
Humor is the mistress of tears.
Humor is the harmony of the heart.
Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control.
I use humor to educate.
Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.
I don't have much interest in writing if there are not opportunities to crack open the inherited forms. The writing I love to read most does this as well. I'm a form junkie.
I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.
Gags die, humor doesn't.
A crisis + time = humor.
I like good humor.
There's always a source for humor.
I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.
I don't let myself believe in writer's block. I feel very strongly writing is habit as much as an art or a craft. And if you write crap, you're still writing.
Humor tells you where the trouble is.
I believe in myself enough to not get hung up on what other people are doing, or what I should be writing, or the nature of how I'm writing. I'm just able.
My office-hour reading is fairly ad hoc: I generally read whatever seems relevant to what I'm editing, writing, or thinking about writing.
Humor is a universal language.
Humor heals the heckler.
Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing. And then trust it-and yourself.
Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.
For me, humor is everything!
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.
Humor is an antidote to isolation.
I dabbled in writing, wrote really bad poetry in high school. I also took a few writing classes when I was an undergrad at Stanford. I was so intimidated.
