Comic Novel Quotes

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.

The first novel I wrote, 'The White House Mess,' was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir.

I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.

Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

I read one of the funniest books last week by Don DeLillo. He wrote this book, 'Amazons' many years ago, under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell. The book is very funny but I also think it's funny that he denies any involvement with it.