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Great humorists are great insulters.
Dick Cavett
Great
Humorists
I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.
David Sedaris
Exaggeration
Humorists
Tools
Way
About
Write
Always
Been
Very
Upfront
Use
Used
I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.
Roseanne Barr
Whatever
Think
Humorists
Solutions
Only
Supposed
Comics
Questions
Offer
Ask
There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
Cullen Hightower
People
Humorists
About
Talk
Issue
Controversial
Sensibly
Who
Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.
John Scalzi
Me
Humorists
William
Inspired
Writers
Outside
Like
Most
Robert
Genre
James
Mike
Molly
Who
Many
Ben
Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them.
Robert Mankoff
Me
Editing
Own
Stage
Believe
Other
Humorists
Out
Cartoonists
Through
Stuff
Editor
Go
End
Get
Just
Whether
Which
Them
Internal
Professional
Need