Piers Anthony Quotes

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

I find writing is the most fun I have in comedy.

Woody Allen's 'The Complete Prose' - It's just the best selection of comic writing by one author. You know it's good comedy when you get quite demoralised about yourself.

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

I tried almost every genre. I decided at 14 I wanted to be a writer. I think I had to wait until they invented word processors to get serious about it, but I really tried every genre, and fantasy was the one that gave me the scope to do the most... you could play with worlds more.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

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

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.