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I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

One thing that's really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people writing me with things that crack me up.

When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

I think my funny books are my favorites because I like to laugh so much.

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.

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.

I can't not put humor in a book.

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.