Danh ngôn của Lorrie Moore (Sứ mệnh: 8)

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.
I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.
When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'