Rebecca Stead Quotes

I'm not very funny!

I'm just not very funny.

I do sarcasm really poorly.

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

I can be sarcastic.

I have some sarcastic sides of me.

I'm thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. That's just the sort of dedicated writer I am.

I am pretty sarcastic and pretty dry.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

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

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.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.

I don't fancy myself as a very sarcastic person in real life.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

I've got a sense of humor. I'm a funny guy.

Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.

I'm the easiest person to make fun of.

I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.