Dwayne McDuffie famous quotes

If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race or that sex, and they can't be interesting because everything they do has to represent an entire block of people. You know, Superman isn't all white people and neither is Lex Luthor. We knew we had to present a range of characters within each ethnic group, which means that we couldn't do just one book. We had to do a series of books and we had to present a view of the world that's wider than the world we've seen before.
-- Dwayne McDuffie

#Sex #Block #Book

I was born in Detroit. I never really saw myself working in comics, I just fell into it. But it's been one of the best things to happen to a kid from Detroit.
-- Dwayne McDuffie

#Kids #Saws #Detroit

I've always felt that the cool thing about being a writer is that all you need is paper to do the job.
-- Dwayne McDuffie

#Jobs #Needs #Paper

I think the biggest advice I can offer is don't just pick one story and stop, write as much as you can, as many stories as you can. The best thing about being a writer is, a writer's craft is nearly perfect because a writer can go anywhere and do his craft.
-- Dwayne McDuffie

#Writing #Thinking #Perfect

You don’t feel as real if you don’t see yourself reflected in the media […] There’s something very powerful about seeing yourself represented.
-- Dwayne McDuffie

#Powerful #Real #Media

I'm conscious of race whenever I'm writing, just as I'm conscious of class, religion, human psychology, politics — everything that makes up the human experience. I don't think I can do a good job if I'm not paying attention to what's meaningful to people, and in American culture, there isn't anything that informs human interaction more than the idea of race.
-- Dwayne McDuffie

#Meaningful #Jobs #Writing

My fan fiction is canon.
-- Dwayne McDuffie

#Fans #Fiction #Canon

You don’t feel as real if you don’t see yourself reflected in the media […] There’s something very powerful about seeing yourself represented.
-- Dwayne McDuffie

#Powerful #Real #Media

But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.

Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.

Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

I was here, and I loaded a shotgun on Independence Day, but I didn't kill anybody. I didn't drone any children. I didn't steal any children's future. I didn't sell this country into debt. I didn't do any of the crimes that the man two blocks over at the White House is responsible for,

It's fear. Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything. Real feeling, true happiness, real joy, they can't get through that fog. But you lift it and buddy you're in for the ride of your life.

Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master.

My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read — I like to buy.