"I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them near me, it imbues me with a sense of powerful intelligence."

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Sam Amidon

#Powerful Quotes #Book Quotes #Pretentious Quotes

“If I'm a leader, I have a mission.”
“The soft bigotry of low expectations”
“I'm really very visually attracted to Wonder Woman. She just looks great on the page.”

Source : "Meredith, David Finch Discuss Taking 'Wonder Woman' More 'Mainstream'". Interview with Josie Campbell, www.cbr.com. July 01, 2014.
“I have spent my whole life educating myself.”
“Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.”

Source : Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.24, Del Rey
“A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.”
“The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we got excited and we were going to do the high jump, and I jumped and fell over backwards. That was a scary time, because if the backpack got broken, I would have had it. But everything held together.”
“An artist works through exposed wounds.”

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