Jim C. Hines Quotes

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

I'm not much of a joke writer.

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

I don't write punch lines.

In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

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.

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

Everything is so funny in the movie. The funniest thing about the movie is the transformations they were able to make with the characters.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

I think any decent comedy worth its salt has to have heart, otherwise it's just a bunch of jokes. I think people enjoy comedies that have a heart and soul to them.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

I can't not put humor in a book.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

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.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

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

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

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

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

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.