Julia Quinn Quotes

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.

Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.

Funny is funny is funny.

When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

I am drawn to humorous art that is ironic.

There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I love smart comedy.