Stephen Graham Jones - Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much ...

Stephen Graham Jones Zitate

Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.

Stephen Graham Jones

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Menschen zum Lachen zu bringen ist viel schwieriger als traurig zu sein. Zu viel Fiktion setzt auf das düstere, das tragische. Dies liegt daran, dass traurige Endungen im Vergleich einfach sind - glückliche Endungen sind überhaupt nicht einfach zu verdienen, vor allem, wenn sie einem Publikum schreiben, das von ihnen abgestumpft wird.

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