Humor is urgent work (Zinsser)
May 8th, 2008 | Published in Writing, Quotes, Humor and Satire | 1 Comment
Humor… is urgent work. It’s an attempt to say important things in a special way that regular writers aren’t getting said in a regular way—or if they are, it’s so regular that nobody is reading it.
—William Zinsser, On Writing Well, p. 209.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:17 pm (#)
If I may add my two pence worth:
Humor is like poetry. Except, when somebody doesn’t get the joke, it’s the fault of the writer.