James Fallows Quotes

Sarcasm doesn't read sarcastic in print.

Sarcasm is lost in print.

Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

I'm a sarcastic person, and people don't get my humor sometimes.

Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.

I can be a very sarcastic person, and sometimes people take every word I say literally.

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?

You would have to be born with a gene that doesn't allow you to recognize sarcasm if you take anything I say seriously.

Sometimes, I use humor because I believe in revealing truth in a way that other forms cannot.

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.

I like very dry humor. I don't like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.

Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally.

I saw an e-mail from one guy who's about 23 to one of peers. His parting sign-off was 'Don't let the bedbugs bite.' Now that's really poetic.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

The problem with these interviews is that there's no sarcastic font.

Some sarcasm is best told simply. Some humor is best told big and some is best told small.

I tend to like dry humor.

I can be sarcastic.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

I tweet from bed. I love it because it's so quick. And it's funny. But it also leaves a lot of room for error because new people don't sense the sarcasm - there's no sarcasm font.