Satire Write Quotes

#1. I like to write a lot of satire.

Earl King

#2. Incidentally, it's easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people.

Franz Kafka

#3. I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.

Kate Christensen

#4. Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

Albert Einstein

#5. My new story collection won't please everyone, nor was it meant to. Then again, not everybody lives in my world. If they did, I'd have to move out and find another world to write about.

Ted Gargiulo

#6. Every life is precious, has value, a purpose, and is significant. Each life adds value to this world and to the lives of others. That value is immeasurable.

Lorrie Blitch

#7. Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.

Paul Auster

#8. For me, my party views don't advance my narrative. Until I can find a way to write political satire like my idols Christopher Buckley or P.J. O'Rourke, I'll simply say what team I play for and leave it at that.

Jen Lancaster

#9. If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

Carl Hiaasen

#10. I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.

Bo Burnham

#11. I write humor as it's pretty much the only thing keeping me out of an asylum.

Bonnie Daly

#12. I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change.

Gretchen Rubin

#13. In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

Horace

#14. Difficile est satiram non scribere
[It is hard not to write a satire]

Juvenal

#15. The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.

Victor Hugo

#16. I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project.

Michael Hastings

#17. The more you expect from a volunteer the more you get.

Andy Stanley

#18. He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [ ... ], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person.

David Baldacci

#19. It's easier to write songs when you're single.

Lucinda Williams

#20. He hiccupped and continued: "I write therefore I come...But unfortunately, my orgies are never eternal!...

Fiston Mwanza Mujila

#21. What you want to do is talk about ideas, you write a novel, you have a lecture about those ideas. Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

Justin Simien

#22. The real satire starts when I'm shockingly mocked,not mockingly shocked.

Munia Khan

#23. When levitation fails, a ladder prevails.

Becky Stark

#24. I said never mix business with pleasure. They said it was a pleasure doing business with me.

Nikhil Sharda

#25. The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

Anthony Trollope

#26. It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.

Lynn Davies

#27. It is difficult not to write satire.

Juvenal

#28. The best lessons one teaches oneself.

Joe Abercrombie

#29. We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

Janet Evanovich