Words matter. These are the best Humorist Quotes from famous people such as David Sedaris, Art Buchwald, Garrison Keillor, Peter De Vries, James Gleick, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve always been very upfront about the way I write, and I’ve always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.
A humorist has to be taken seriously before he’s considered a real writer.
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn’t funny. It’s a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it’s not a surprise anymore.
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn’t have to be profound, and it doesn’t have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people – that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
I’m a classic example of all humorists – only funny when I’m working.
To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don’t see how that’s big news.
Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it’s probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
Perhaps we could do without tragedy in art – but what about comedy? Is it a coincidence that so many of the best American humorists have been Jewish and African-American?
My mom is well read in English and Bengali, and my dad is a humorist, science writer and a futurist.
Great humorists are great insulters.
Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them.
In Czechoslovakia, we consider Kafka a very funny man. A humorist.
A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
That’s the great test: if you’re going to be a great comic writer, not a humorist, you’ve got to take it into the throat of grief. Can you make laughter and seriousness so close that they are the same thing?
Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
But I’m a humorist. I’m not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.
There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.
One reason I didn’t trust my writing for so long was that I always considered myself a serious dramatic actor. But people would always laugh when I shared my writing with them. It took my husband to help me see that I really am part humorist.
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It’s literary suicide.
Have I been an entertainer, a provocateur and a humorist? Absolutely.
