Quotes About Humorous Writing

#1. Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.

Patrick DeWitt

#2. "Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

Lewis Carroll

#3. The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense.

Bryan Way

#4. The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.

A.E. Poynor

#5. Thought for the day: Twitter ... 140 character limit ... must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers ...

E.A. Bucchianeri

#6. It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!

Martha Sweeney

#7. One of the things I love about labeling myself as an author is that I can read books and call it "researching writing styles."
Mike Mankoff

Mike Mankoff

#8. There's nothing sexier than imaging myself as an Oxford comma getting unambiguously banged. Throw in a semicolon in between two closely related independent clauses, and a volcanic love of punctuation eruption is guaranteed.

Ella Dominguez

#9. Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

Erma Bombeck

#10. Don't stop writing until someone pries the pen from your cold, dead hands.

James John Tritten

#11. Why do I write? Because I like telling stories and I don't like repeating myself (insert chuckle here).

Najeev Raj Nadarajah

#12. Writing is a wonderful way to spend the day. Particularly when the alternative is housework!

J. Mary Masters

#13. While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.

Ann Beattie

#14. Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.

Will Shetterly

#15. The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little mice to secretly finish the job while I am sleeping.

Christy Hall

#16. Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99.

Ryan Lilly

#17. Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader ...

Owen Wister

#18. An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you don't want to. There is no such thing as a block of time to write. You have to carve time from a busy day. Elaine L. Orr

Elaine Orr

#19. Clearly, we're supposed to be together. If this were the internet, seventeen-year-old girls would be writing slash fiction about us as we speak.

Vaughn R. Demont

#20. Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. J.B. PRIESTLEY

Janice Lane Palko

#21. Writing something new is an effective way to get rid of writer's block. Or you can observe the people around you and fantasize like I do.

B.A. Gabrielle

#22. I had to be the world's biggest loser, writing about hair, and stuff about my body. No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. Why would I want to do that?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#23. When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

Piers Anthony

#24. Occupation: Writer
Occupational Hazard: Carpel tunnel
Solution: Wrist guards to bed or my hands do all the sleeping
Perspective: I've decided my wrist guards have turned me into a Ninja Superhero that hides in the shadows

Christy Hall

#25. There is little more I can add short of dissecting the man, or going into intimate details such as the modest proportions and slight southeasterly curvature of his manhood.

Felix J. Palma

#26. Writing is a lonely pursuit. The only thing working is imagination and hands.
The only difference between writing and masturbation is one is presumably intended for a mass audience.

Mark Bell

#27. Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.

A.E. Croft

#28. Keep rechewing. Like a cow. Use all your creative stomachs.

Elizabeth M. Lawrence

#29. Write. Write write write write WRITE. Write. Now.

(This is an inspirational writing quote.)

Jen Lynn Anderson

#30. I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them.

Toby Young

#31. Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

Jonathan Lynn

#32. American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive technical arrangements; on the American air the world's most primitive writing is performed under perfect technical conditions.

George Mikes

#33. I'm writing a new book called 'Ventroliquism for Dummies'.

Ron Moore

#34. If a book falls in the woods and nobody read it, was it ever written?

Neil Leckman

#35. Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer?
A: Explaining what that is.

Christy Hall

#36. I refuse to give readers an uplifting faux experience engineered to comfort them and perpetuate the sociopolitical and economic status quo."
"Who died and made you Bertolt Brecht?

Chuck Palahniuk

#37. Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the fear & suspicion that one of the characters will start an uncontrollable rebellion.

Shomprakash Sinha Roy

#38. A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering when day turned into night.

Christy Hall

#39. I'm writing a book on Procrastination. I hope to start it tomorrow. I've been thinking about it for almost six years now.

Ron Moore