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It's a nice survey of the current comic book world and related industries. And each guest has a different 'how I broke into the business' story, so aspiring writers and artists should definitely take note.


Carmela Merlo

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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book...
JEFF LEMIRE While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
JEFFREY ARCHER Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.
LAMONT DOZIER The comic book world is a tough business.
SHIA LABEOUF You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots....
JULIET MARILLIER The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES DRM is already widely deployed without a hint of success and the NAVSHP group has the opportunity to...
CORY DOCTOROW Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginn...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor...
CARRIE RYAN We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.
HARRY HARRISON The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. I...
SHATRUJEET NATH She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely ex...
KATE GRENVILLE Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do thin...
DONAL LOGUE I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology fo...
ANNE HATHAWAY I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing ...
SARAH J. MAAS There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna want to do, but you'll have to do in this life jus...
MILDRED D. TAYLOR I wanted to be of service to the Peace League, and how could I better do so than by trying to write ...
BERTHA VON SUTTNER History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I had watched a dozen comets ... slowly creep across the sky as each one signed its sweeping flouris...
DAVID LEVY I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed...
SUSAN ORLEAN We just love the way they look and how they fit into a different aesthetic than the Euro-American qu...
JEAN TYSON they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH 'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So ...
FRANK MILLER I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ...
PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story...
CHESTER HIMES I find the comic book audience a lot more intense than the fantasy one, definitely.
FINN JONES At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex...
GENE LUEN YANG But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people....
WILLIAM LANDAY Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. Oh, I should probably set a few ground rules before we do this.”
“Oh?” I turn at the wais...
J.A. REDMERSKI Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo...
SAM RAIMI The greatest loss is the loss of life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw ...
ELVIS PRESLEY Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte]
SEX AND THE CITY When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill!
SEX AND THE CITY I love you, but I love myself more.
SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne...
SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives.
SEX AND THE CITY Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca...
SEX AND THE CITY I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria]
SEX AND THE CITY I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ...
SEX AND THE CITY I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda]
SEX AND THE CITY the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.
SEX AND THE CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY Maybe we should get married.[Charlotte] Alrighty.[Trey]
SEX AND THE CITY My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry abou...
SEX AND THE CITY Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story.
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