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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece. ~ Ian Frazier
Writing Humor quotes by Ian Frazier
My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money. ~ Barbara Park
Writing Humor quotes by Barbara Park
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 is frequently hilarious. ~ Richard Russo
Writing Humor quotes by Richard Russo
I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap. ~ Cassandra Duffy
Writing Humor quotes by Cassandra Duffy
Writers write, everyone else just talks about writing. ~ Various
Writing Humor quotes by Various
Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly. ~ C. Kennedy
Writing Humor quotes by C. Kennedy
Writing humor is not something every single person can do. ~ Celia Rivenbark
Writing Humor quotes by Celia Rivenbark
By all the rules of modern fiction there should have been gunsmoke mingling its acrid blue with the brown haze of corral dust. Dead men should have fallen and been trampled ...
Nothing of this sort happened. ~ B.M. Bower
Writing Humor quotes by B.M. Bower
Just remember, this is a collaborative effort. We don't have time for creative differences or outbreaks of artistic integrity. ~ Greg Cox
Writing Humor quotes by Greg Cox
Writing helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. It would be hard to sit at a desk all day, and then come to sit at another desk. Also, it helps to abandon hope. If I sit at my computer, determined to write a New Yorker story I won't get beyond the first sentence. It's better to put no pressure on it. What would happen if I followed the previous sentence with this one, I'll think. If the eighth draft is torture, the first should be fun. At least if you're writing humor. ~ David Sedaris
Writing Humor quotes by David Sedaris
The leader gives me another hard stare. He's not very old, but he's going bald. His wispy pale hair looks like it's trying to get as far away as it can from his angry face. ~ Morris Gleitzman
Writing Humor quotes by Morris Gleitzman
Inside the room there sat a rocker, which she sat on, and which had rocked her while she sipped the beer, because in spite of herself she had become so giddy to have so quickly relieved her heart that she allowed herself to lean backwards while in the rocker, which had made it possible for the rocker to rock her, although it was not her intention to be so rocked. Also there stood an ironing board with a still hot iron on it that was burning a yellow shift, and there was, among several items that were not as noticeable to the woman, and yet were noticeable enough to at least bear mention, a fake man.
"I hope you don't mind me asking," said the woman who lived in the room, but then while in her chair she nodded off. ~ Justin Dobbs
Writing Humor quotes by Justin Dobbs
I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write ...
... writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is likely to turn and bite right to the bone ... and not even know that he's doing it. As writers' wives and husbands often learn to their horror ...
... there is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured. In a household with more than one person, of which one is a writer, the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private, and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. Because, if you disturb the patient at such times, he may break into tears or become violent. Or he may not hear you at all ... and, if you shake him at this stage, he bites ... ~ Robert A. Heinlein
Writing Humor quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke. ~ Jory John
Writing Humor quotes by Jory John
Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing. ~ John Irving
Writing Humor quotes by John Irving
The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted knight. ~ Elias Zapple
Writing Humor quotes by Elias Zapple
Memory is a rascal. ~ John Dufresne
Writing Humor quotes by John Dufresne
With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come. ~ Ian Frazier
Writing Humor quotes by Ian Frazier
Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the mail? ~ Steven Wright
Writing Humor quotes by Steven Wright
Inside a wool jacket the man had made a pocket for the treasure and from time to time he would jiggle the pocket, just to make sure that it was still there. And when on the train he rode to work he would jiggle it there also, but he would disguise his jiggling of the treasure on the train by devising a distraction. For example, the man would pretend to be profoundly interested in something outside the train, such as the little girl who seemed to be jumping high up on a trampoline, just high enough so that she could spy the man on the train, and in this way he really did become quite interested in what occurred outside the train, although he would still jiggle the treasure, if only out of habit. Also on the train he'd do a crossword puzzle and check his watch by rolling up his sleeve; when he did so he almost fell asleep. Antoine often felt his life to be more tedious with this treasure, because in order not to be overly noticed he had deemed it wise to fall into as much a routine as possible and do everything as casually as possible, and so, as a consequence, despite the fact that he hated his wife and daughter, he didn't leave them, he came home to them every night and he ate the creamed chicken that his wife would prepare for him, he would accept the large, fleshy hand that would push him around while he sat around in his house in an attempt to read or watch the weather, he took out the trash, he got up on time every morning and took a quick, cold shower, he shaved, he acce ~ Justin Dobbs
Writing Humor quotes by Justin Dobbs
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable ~ Alfred Lansing
Writing Humor quotes by Alfred Lansing
Damn, Gabriel. I didn't touch her."
"Your lips were on hers. That's touching," Gabriel growled.
[...]
"I am the Gabriel. I run this pack, and if any of them" –he looked past her to the Hound on the floor– "want to challenge me over you,all they need to is say the word."
The Hound on the floor spoke up. "I turned her down."
"Not because she lacks anything," Gabriel growled. ~ Melissa Marr
Writing Humor quotes by Melissa Marr
I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades. ~ David Nicholls
Writing Humor quotes by David Nicholls
To develop your own voice, you have to keep writing a ton, and this is something where I think Twitter is helpful. I use it to write a ton of jokes. You have to write a ton of bad stuff before you know what you're good at. And that's what some people I think have trouble with, the thought of getting past the bad stuff. ~ Megan Amram
Writing Humor quotes by Megan Amram
I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I ended up writing about myself, which was incredibly annoying and self-involved. ~ Damian Barr
Writing Humor quotes by Damian Barr
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash. ~ John Berger
Writing Humor quotes by John Berger
I find it quite intriguing that the one observing me as different, immediately assumes that there's something wrong with me, but never, not even for one instant, questions the possibility of the opposite. It's truly amazing that the ones with more certainties, the most arrogant and the most selfish, are indeed the most stupid inside society. They are so dumb and ignorant that they can't see a writer in front of their nose. And the more the writer types, talks and thinks, the more they think that this separation, this difference, grants them some form of superiority. Indeed, the light pushes demons into hell. The brighter your light, the faster you differentiate others. The way of the light was never meant for the weak, which are a majority. And this majority will always ignore the light, as demons fearing and hating angels. And so, it's interesting that without artists God would not have a way to reach the world. And yet, without the ignorant, Satan wouldn't have a way to stop God. ~ Robin Sacredfire
Writing Humor quotes by Robin Sacredfire
I am developing new coping mechanisms for lost words and lost negatives, as here for instance: compensate by describing the episode instead. When something is lost, redirect energy, follow the derivé, the chance and flow of what life tosses us, and make something new instead.

Remember that I'm often struck by certain passages of descriptive writing, writing that is not about driving home a point but about providing detail, background, setting the scene (it's tempting to call this the stadium of writing). It has a "something from nothing" quality: a pleasurable experience has been had, and no one has paid a price. Remember that writing does not have to be torture (107). ~ Moyra Davey
Writing Humor quotes by Moyra Davey
I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes. ~ Jacqueline Briskin
Writing Humor quotes by Jacqueline Briskin
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write. ~ Robert Penn Warren
Writing Humor quotes by Robert Penn Warren
Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that. ~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Writing Humor quotes by Mikhail Bulgakov
All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store. ~ William Gibson
Writing Humor quotes by William Gibson
Every success has a beginning, which is zero ~ Shaunak Chakraborty
Writing Humor quotes by Shaunak Chakraborty
Instead of celebrating with a cake (too full of poisonous refined sugars) and presents (too materialistic), my mother would come into my room at exactly 3:57 A.M. to tell me the story of my miraculous emergence into this world, as if it was some fairy tale. Although I supposed few fairy tales involved the words 'vaginal flowering'. ~ Molly Harper
Writing Humor quotes by Molly Harper
I was incapable of producing
anything coherent at the moment so
rather than throwing out some witty
banter in response I said something like
"Ohgaahaad" instead. Feel free to quote
me. ~ N.M. Silber
Writing Humor quotes by N.M. Silber
You can do almost anything if you put your mind to it. Be it the perfect murder, robbing a bank or owning your own company. I don't go along with Prince Charles' maxim that everyone should know their place and limitations. ~ Stephen Richards
Writing Humor quotes by Stephen Richards
Samantha sometimes found Miles absurd and, increasingly, dull. Every now and then, though, she enjoyed his pomposity in precisely the same spirit as she liked, on formal occasions, to wear a hat. ~ J.K. Rowling
Writing Humor quotes by J.K. Rowling
Writing is where my heart is. ~ Arthur T.Y. Foo
Writing Humor quotes by Arthur T.Y. Foo
If your self-respect's for sale, don't complain when someone tries to bargain. ~ K.D. Harp
Writing Humor quotes by K.D. Harp
Elegant presents soon followed. Leather luggage for Jesse's travels and a lovely mink-lined coat to keep her warm in the 'abominable British weather.' It is a country 'only a Druid could love,' Maharet wrote. ~ Anne Rice
Writing Humor quotes by Anne Rice
Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. ~ Mark Twain
Writing Humor quotes by Mark Twain
Connie drove a silver Camry with rosary beads hanging from her rearview mirror and a Smith& Wesson stuck under the seat. No matter whatwent down, Connie was covered. ~ Janet Evanovich
Writing Humor quotes by Janet Evanovich
Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs a single character as the means of perception, as the character to whom the events are happening, as the character with whom he is to empathize in order to have the events of the writing happen to him. ~ John Ciardi
Writing Humor quotes by John Ciardi
For me writing is an organic process that starts with engaging the language and then thinking about the structure of the novel as you move along. Especially in revision you start to notice correlations. Things come up, not self-consciously, because you're busy feeling your way through sentences and trying to push the language into new places. ~ Dana Spiotta
Writing Humor quotes by Dana Spiotta
May God redeem mankind. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Writing Humor quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about. ~ Shannon L. Alder
Writing Humor quotes by Shannon L. Alder
Writing a great book is like creating a gourmet meal! Those who thoroughly enjoyed your book will come back to get fed again. ~ Darrell Gibbs
Writing Humor quotes by Darrell Gibbs
There are no definite rules (in writing). You learn as you go. ~ Winna Efendi
Writing Humor quotes by Winna Efendi
It is truly excellent to have someone believe in you and your ability to write. But I think it is just as helpful to have people who don't believe in you, people who mock you, people who doubt you, people who enrage you. Fortunately, there is never a shortage of this type of person in the world ... write for yourself. Write for the story. And write, also, for all of the people who doubt you. Write for all those people who are not brave enough to do this grand and wondrous thing themselves. Let them motivate you. ~ Kate DiCamillo
Writing Humor quotes by Kate DiCamillo
Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good memory and I would just keep them in my head. ~ Craig Finn
Writing Humor quotes by Craig Finn
You know you're a writer when the words don't stop! ~ Joyce Middleton
Writing Humor quotes by Joyce Middleton
(1)BEING A POET
is like opening a car door
& exposing yourself.
(2)BEING A GOOD POET
is like opening the door
& exposing the passenger
as well. ~ Chocolate Waters
Writing Humor quotes by Chocolate Waters
So you're lying to me again?" "It's a Southern tradition." "Are there any crocs in the water?" "I done told you there ain't no crocodiles around here." "What's the difference?" "Mostly the spelling, ... ~ Nick Wilgus
Writing Humor quotes by Nick Wilgus
I think we're on a journey ... It was very easy to write about my past in my book, but writing about the present is all a new chapter. I hope that people find this journey fascinating, informative and educational. ~ Donna Karan
Writing Humor quotes by Donna Karan
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken. ~ Dick Gregory
Writing Humor quotes by Dick Gregory
When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer. ~ Charles Bukowski
Writing Humor quotes by Charles Bukowski
If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That's what contemporary philosophers do. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova
Writing Humor quotes by Ljupka Cvetanova
One extends one's limits only by exceeding them. ~ M. Scott Peck
Writing Humor quotes by M. Scott Peck
I like people with a good sense of humor, like Jennifer Aniston. She is amazing and is a great actress. ~ Helio Castroneves
Writing Humor quotes by Helio Castroneves
People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes ~ Chris Abani
Writing Humor quotes by Chris Abani
Tinks titties Rache
Jenks ~ Kim Harrison
Writing Humor quotes by Kim Harrison
I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by the time I was thirty, and so I gave up my job and moved to Paris at twenty-eight. I just held my breath and jumped. I didn't even look to see if there was water in the pool. ~ Mavis Gallant
Writing Humor quotes by Mavis Gallant
What I want is a beautiful and sophisticated piece of ass that happens to be 'bi. ~ Scott Jonathan Nixon
Writing Humor quotes by Scott Jonathan Nixon
I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends." ~ Steven Wright
Writing Humor quotes by Steven Wright
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