As quoted in You Must Remember This (1975) by Walter Wagner, p. 175
As quoted in ...
“Make them laugh, make them cry, or make them angry.”
Paul Dacre (1948) English journalist
Dacre's description of the best way to write for readers My Life in [the] Media: Des Kelly, The Independent, 12 December 2005 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/des-kelly-my-life-in-media-519169.html,
Mary Pickford (1892–1979) Canadian-American actress
Kevin Brownlow, The Parade's Gone By ... (1968), p. 134
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
“Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.”
Charles Reade (1814–1884) British writer
Advice given to an aspiring writer.
Attributed
“Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy,
And with their Comoedies they make us cry.”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628–1687) English statesman and poet
Prologue
The Rehearsal (1671)
“Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.”
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
“It has never been man’s gift to make wildernesses. But he can make deserts, and has.”
Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) American historian, writer, and environmentalist
"The War Between the Rough Riders and the Bird Watchers" (1959 address; reprinted in Wildlands and Our Civilization, David Brower, editor, 1964, and in Voices for the Wilderness, William Schwarz, editor, 1970, page 76)
