Michael Robotham Quotes

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

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

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

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

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

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

I don't write punch lines.

Most of what I write is comedy.

Writing comedy is a superpower.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.