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  • #1
    Mark Waid
    “Always know your protagonists inside and out. As a writer, show us things about them we've never before considered; make us care about who they are and what they want, so much that it's gut-wrenching to see them roadblocked and exhilarating to see them triumph over obstacles. You have to live inside them, through them--inhabit them as an actor would and tell stories about things that matter immensely to the both of you.”
    Mark Waid

  • #2
    Warren Ellis
    “Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists.”
    Warren Ellis, Doktor Sleepless, Volume 1: Engines of Desire

  • #3
    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    Albert Camus

  • #4
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus

  • #5
    Albert Camus
    “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
    Albert Camus

  • #6
    Albert Camus
    “You can't create experience, you undergo it.”
    Albert Camus

  • #7
    Albert Camus
    “We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.”
    Albert Camus

  • #8
    Max Brooks
    “Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent
    thinking clearly is never time wasted.”
    Max Brooks, Zombie Survival Guide, The: Complete Protection From The Living Dead

  • #9
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #10
    Mark Waid
    “If you're going to survive in this world, here's what you need to know: you are who you are, not what people think you are.”
    Mark Waid

  • #10
    Jim Jarmusch
    “Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

    [MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]”
    Jim Jarmusch

  • #11
    Mark Waid
    “We answer rage with wisdom. We answer fear with imagination. We answer war with hope. We are, each of us, important.”
    Mark Waid

  • #12
    Bob Dylan
    “Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”
    Bob Dylan

  • #13
    Bob Dylan
    “I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.”
    Bob Dylan

  • #14
    Bob Dylan
    “All I can be is me- whoever that is. ”
    Bob Dylan

  • #15
    Rick Remender
    “I'm just a broken thing you're familiar with.”
    Rick Remender, Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 2: Come Join Us

  • #16
    Neil Gaiman
    “It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

  • #17
    Neil Gaiman
    “If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you did, you should already be making the next thing.


    If bad reviews (of whatever kind) upset you, just don’t read them. It’s not like you’ve signed an agreement with the person buying the book to exchange your book for their opinion.

    Do whatever you have to do to keep making art. I know people who love bad reviews, because it means they’ve made something happen and made people talk; I know people who have never read any of their reviews. It’s their call. You get on with making art.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #18
    Neil Gaiman
    “People tend to find books when they are ready for them.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #19
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #20
    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

  • #21
    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    William Faulkner

  • #22
    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #23
    Stephen  King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #24
    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    Philip Pullman

  • #25
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia



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