"If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ***** every time."

-- Scott McCloud

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Stories Quotes

“My fans and I have that special connection because whenever we talk on Twitter and Facebook we really have that one on one connection and I feel that's important.”
“The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.”
“Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that were unpopular (arming the Iranians) were quite legal.”
“I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?”
“I hurt my shoulder on the fifth tee - just hitting it too hard when you're too old.”
“The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.”
“I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.”
“The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true for World War II. In World War III, both sides are almost everywhere, but they live in different centuries.”

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