Lisa Kleypas Quotes

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

I'm probably doing puns more than anything in my life.

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

I'm really great at making terrible analogies.

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

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

I often joke that I could write 'War and Peace' and make it sound like Geri Halliwell wrote it.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

That's an old saying I just made up.

I don't write punch lines.

People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.

Comedy has no rules, per se.

Writing comedy is a superpower.

We've always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is.

I mean, no, I don't think anything is too far; you can make fun of anything.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

I believe you can joke about anything.

People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

A lot of comedy is really DIY. You're kind of doing it yourself.

Obstreperous, ‘huh,” said Tad. “I see you’ve been using that Big Word of the Day calendar I got you last Christmas.” “That is irrefragable,” I told him solemnly.

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

I've never been to a hotel with a rotating restaurant on top, but one time I took my girlfriend to a merry-go-round, and I gave her a burrito.

Where did you get your haircut, the pet shop?