I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.
Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book.
I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.
I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.
I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.