Quotes About Wryness

Using fantasy as metaphor, wryness rather than bluntness, never escaping a certain gentility in approach

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

Coulda made something o' himself. But a luckless man. All his days a luckless man. The kinna man woulda got two complimentary tickets for the Titanic." The unintentional humour of her remark was like her natural appetite for life reasserting itself. Harkness couldn't stop smiling. It was as if Glasgow couldn't shut the wryness of its mouth even at the edge of the grave.