"Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint."

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Source : "Crime novelist Duane Swierczynski on shedding the Spanx for noir in the new BLACK HOOD #1". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. January 28, 2015.

Duane Swierczynski

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“Mountain biking helps people become environmentalists. A mountain bike is a vehicle to appreciate the backcountry.”
“Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.”
“The Scots will do anything to beat the English or just to see them lose, but I've never bought into that really.”
“A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far more intimate and powerful than speech will allow.”

Source : Alice Steinbach (2010). “Educating Alice”, p.37, Random House
“I wrote and directed and acted in it and produced it, every job I have since that - and Star Wars included - I look at it completely different now. Now that I've seen how it gets made, I can appreciate the jobs that people are doing, and it's also become a different learning experience for me to work on things because I'm watching pros at the top of their field do their jobs and just picking up on their tricks and all of their expertise and stashing them away in my brain.”

Source : "Alan Tudyk on making Moana's chicken noises and his fear of becoming Rogue One's Jar Jar". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, film.avclub.com. December 7, 2016.
“Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to get rid of anything nonessential. You go in, you start writing your article, assuming a person's going to stop reading the minute you give them a reason. So the trick is: don't give them one.”
“However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.”
“Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.”

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