"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide"
- Erma Bombeck
About this Quote
In this quote, Erma Bombeck, a well-known humorist, is expressing the concept that humorists must never take themselves too seriously. She believes that if they do, it would resemble dedicating literary suicide, meaning that it would be the end of their profession as a humorist. Bombeck is stressing the significance of remaining true to one's comical style and not trying to be something they are not. Humorists are indicated to make individuals laugh and bring pleasure to their audience, and taking themselves too seriously would break that function. Bombeck's words serve as a suggestion for humorists to constantly stay simple and not let success get to their heads.
This quote is written / told by Erma Bombeck between February 21, 1927 and April 22, 1996. She was a famous Journalist from USA.
The author also have 61 other quotes.
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"I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it"
"As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide"
"To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill"
