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I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

When I'm with other people who inspire my silliness or sense of humor, I'm funny. When I sit down to write, it's hard not to be funny.

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.

It's very hard to write humor.

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.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

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.