Duane Swierczynski famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I read like fiends smoke crack
-- Duane Swierczynski

#Cracks #Smoke
I love seeing guys on the worst possible day and watching them scramble.
-- Duane Swierczynski

#Guy #Worst #Seeing
The noir universe hates do-gooders so it tries to pound them and punish them.
-- Duane Swierczynski

#Hate #Trying #Pounds
I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice when it needs to be dealt.
-- Duane Swierczynski

#Pain #Thinking #Self
Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint.
-- Duane Swierczynski

#Scripts #Marathon #Comic
With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback.
-- Duane Swierczynski

#Zero #Crazy #Years
Comic scripts are full-on collaborations, not only with your artist, but your editors and colorists and letterers and PR folks, etc. Writing comics reminds me of my days as a journalist, working on a staff of fun, smart people.
-- Duane Swierczynski

#Fun #Smart #Writing
Writing novels reminds me of being an awkward 15-year-old typing on a Commodore 64 in his bedroom, trying to be the next Stephen King.
-- Duane Swierczynski

#Kings #Writing #Years

Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.
Now, the other pillar of Israeli power - Western support and complicity - is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.
Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.
They promised me that this would be my home. That girls like you would always be my sisters. But they weren't my sisters, were they?" Catherine asked, but then the lunacy broke, a quick and fleeting crack, and through it I saw anger and bitterness and rage.
I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.
I also smoke a lot of pot, occasionally, every day.
Even though I smoke, just because I'm a dumbass doesn't mean anyone else has to be.
All I am is smoke and mirrors.
I'm not a homosexual and I don't smoke pot, so what would I say?

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