Humor Writing Craft Quotes

#1. Slaying dragons, melting witches, and banishing demons is all fun and games until someone loses a sidekick - then it's personal. The bad guy isn't just the "bad guy" anymore, he's the BAD GUY!

Michael J. Sullivan

#2. On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

Penelope Fitzgerald

#3. Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Gene Fowler

#4. I wait in the cold air where his body was.

Jandy Nelson

#5. They needed some Jews or gays or something to spice things up, to add a bit of theater and a couple of interesting bistros.

Harlan Coben

#6. How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and,' 'the,' and 'I,' and 'it,' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has been done for you.

Terry Pratchett

#7. I don't know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I'm telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. I think only stupid people have good relationships.

Thora Birch

#9. Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.

C. Kennedy

#10. We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

Will Rogers

#11. The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.
[The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]

George Herbert

#12. How many great gems were lost to thought
and not put down to pen.
You can but think of just a few
and then they're lost again.

L.F.Young

#13. Everyone can find what is wrong with a society but only a few can lead toward the betterment of a community.

Debasish Mridha

#14. It's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft
they just do it

Alfred Lansing

#15. Holloa! Starbuck's astir," said the rigger. "He's a lively chief mate that; good man, and a pious; but

Herman Melville