Celia Rivenbark Quotes

It's very hard to write humor.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.

It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.

I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.

I don't write punch lines.

Everybody loves good humour and in movies, we are in search of things that make viewers laugh.

I don't think our records contain obvious humour. We're not cracking gags.

Humor is the hardest thing to do. Action is so much easier, because you're just trying to establish the mood, and a pacing, and a rhythm, and an energy. Where, in humor, comedy is so subjective.

It's a fine line between hack and good comedy.

Using humor as a wedge into different kinds of stories is my go-to. I think anything I do would have some sort of streak of humor in it.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing.