“It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.”
“It's harder to make someone laugh than it is to make them cry.”
“You're funny, which you can't be if you're not smart. Dad says it's harder to make someone laugh than it is to make them smile.”
“Book-writing is always much easier in other people's lives.”
“It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.”
“It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”