Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
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.
Very few things are totally devoid of any possibility of humor. If you are aware of that possibility and alive to the scene becoming that way, then it just happens naturally. That's what I feel living is like, too. I find a lot of things that make me smile or make me laugh over the course of the day.
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 brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
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.