"It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision."

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Source : "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

Len Wein

#Editors Quotes #Vision Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.”

Source : Maria Monk, Theodore Dwight, John Jay Slocum, William K. Hoyte (1836). “Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal”, p.80, New York : Howe & Bates
“An actress' best friend is a body which responds instinctively to thought.”
“How do you bear it?â€ Finnick looks at me in disbelief. â€œI donâ€™t, Katniss! Obviously, I donâ€™t. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find thereâ€™s no relief in waking.â€ â€œThe more you can distract yourself the better, â€ he says. â€œFirst thing tomorrow, weâ€™ll get you your own rope. Until then take mine.”
“Aladdin in his most intoxicated moments would never have dreamed of asking his [djinn] for [a polaroid] ... It's utterly new in concept and appearance, utilizing an utterly revolutionary flash system, an utterly revolutionary viewing system, utterly revolutionary electronics, and utterly revolutionary film structure.”
“Half of the reason why people aren't able to succeed in life is because they hypnotize themselves into believing that they can't accomplish their goals, it's a mind game they play with themselves.”
“I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.”
“Loneliness is a terrible blindness.”
“I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.”

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