Richard Russo Quotes

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

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

I think comedy has to come from your authentic point of view.

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.

I can't not put humor in a book.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

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

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

My whole life I try to make into a comedy, so it would be nice to see that onscreen.

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

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

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

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'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

Being an outsider helps breed comedy.

I don't write punch lines.

Writing comedy is a superpower.

I think comedy can be a way of sugar-coating a pill that needs to be taken, and whatever I complain about onstage, I hope I justify the negativity by using humour to make the point.

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.