funny storytelling Quotes

I don't think my film style has changed. I'm doing the same kind of jokes I did when I was younger.

I never really write the jokes. I just sit down over a week or two and try to figure out what I want to talk about. Once I narrow that down, then I start working on the material, like "How do I make this stuff funny?"

After my first novel, my mother said to me, 'Why don't you make your writing more funny? You're so funny in person.' Because my first novel was rather dark. And I don't know, but something about what she said was true. 'Yes, why don't I?' Maybe I was afraid to be funny in the writing. But since then, seven books later, almost everything I've done has a comedic edge to it.

What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

Roy Blount's stuff makes me laugh so hard, sometimes I have to go sit in a room and shut the door

It takes a lot of energy to be funny... for me it does. I feel like I work twice as hard when I'm doing comedy.

It's very slow for me to create humor. It takes me a long time to write a humor piece. It takes days.

As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh. I guess I've always just been naturally inclined to tell stories.

I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.

[ I'm] humorist, I guess. Or really more of a reporter. A reporter who reports on funny things.

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my life is when I was writing the sequels to "MASH". I was able to ridicule everyone.