Quotes About Author

I try to have all my characters have a sense of humor. To me the most interesting thing is a desperate character. I think desperation is funny.

My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.

Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.

A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?

If the East Timorians decide to revolt, Im sure Ill have a statement.

I only like sports that Bond villains played.

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a funny line.

I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.

I've known Alan Zweibel since 1975, and I've always had this sneaking suspicion that he might possess a sense of humor. After reading CLOTHING OPTIONAL, I'm almost sure he does.

The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it into something new.

I don't see how we can allow public dollars to fund programs where spite and hate is the core of the message.

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.

Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .

We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school.

I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.

And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.

Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.