"I get letters from adults saying that they love the books because they are more in-depth with characterization than the comics. The luxury of writing a whole novel is you can really explore who the characters are."

-- Lisa Yee

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“If youâ€™re going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have big dreams, youâ€™re going to have big challenges.”
“The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?”
“Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)”
“Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.”
“I thought Marcus was going to be in my life forever. Then I thought I was wrong. Now heâ€™s back. But this time I know whatâ€™s certain: Marcus will be gone again, and back again and again and again because nothing is permanent. Especially people. Strangers become friends. Friends become lovers. Lovers become strangers. Strangers become friends once more, and over and over. Tomorrow, next week, fifty years from now, I know Iâ€™ll get another one-word postcard from Marcus, because this one doesnâ€™t have a period signifying the end of the sentence. Or the end of anything at all.”

Source : Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.1233, Crown
“I like to go to the clubs. As long as the environment permits, and it's not too knuckleheadish, I'm there, I go to the club. Because that's where you get inspiration from.”

Source : "Lil Jon is ready to get wild on the road". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. May 24, 2005.
“I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.”
“I'm doing more deep listening, which is part of the role or job of the songwriter. I think with a lot of songwriting, songs sing themselves to you tonally and also lyrically. And it's not necessarily your own visual memories that are writing the song. It's like there are words that you can catch out there and you have to be able to see and hear them.”

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