So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's funny, because I don't think of myself as a novelist. I think of myself as a writer.
When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel.
And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.
I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.
Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.
I always felt that my way into comedy would be through my writing rather than my acting.
I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.