Famous quotes by Famous people

” You can do so much crazy stuff with books that isn’t necessarily being done. That’s how culture stays alive – by doing new things with it. “

” I think the best villains are ones that you can look at and say, ‘Yeah, he’s obviously going about this the wrong way or going too far or whatever, but I can see where he’s coming from.’ Magneto’s a great example of that, and the reason he and Charles Xavier can have such great conversations is that they can both make some good points. “

” A shot-down advance doesn’t have to mean the end of a relationship, right? You can still be friends, as long as you’re not dumb about it. “

” Your worst enemy as a writer – especially one working online a lot of the time – is obscurity. “

” You care a lot about these stories you’re writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too. “

” I’ve always found it funny when people call ‘Romeo and Juliet’ ‘the greatest love story ever told’ because – man – it does not work out well for those kids, you know? I’d like to think the greatest love story ever told would at least let them be together for more than a few hours. “

” My first book, ‘To Be or Not To Be,’ took ‘Hamlet’ and converted it to the choose-your-own-path format. It was a great fit for a book where you control what happens – a book as game – because the plot of ‘Hamlet’ is very game-like: get a mission from a ghost to kill the final boss, kill the final boss, and game over. You win. “

” The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to explore the characters and figure out their different fates. “

” The idea of taking command of your life and doing something that you’re not sure if you can do and you’re not really sure if you should do it, I think is pretty timeless. We all face those doubts often, if not constantly. “

” If you’re going to be adapting something across media, you should at least have the moves that people want you to hit and that you want to hit. “

” This is why it’s hard to talk about winning awards. You can’t do it without sounding like a tool. “

” You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it’s still a good idea. “

” I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case it was the last. But then I talked to other cartoonists, and I realized ideas are cheap, you can have a million ideas. The tricky part is the follow-through: making good ones work, making the best out of the raw material! “

” You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone’s going to be into what you’re doing. “