Writer Quotes by Chris Claremont

11 Writer quotes by Chris Claremont

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Chris Claremont shares eleven short reflections on the storytelling process. This compact set captures his energetic style without excess.

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The key thing if you're a writer is to visualize the scene and convey it to the penciller and turn the penciller…

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I find now I'm reading a lot more nonfiction, simply because every time I read fiction, I think I can write it…

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What excites me, what attracts me, what gets me up in the morning is telling the next story and getting it out…

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The more stories I told, the more I found I wanted to tell. There was always something left unsaid. I got hooked…

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The first challenge that every writer or creator of material faces is getting through the crowd so that the person you're trying…

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Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate, and infinitely…

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It's a fascinating world to drop a finished product on the marketplace without the intercession of a publisher.

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People would much rather argue their own visions and conceptions about a book than engage in a dialogue with the author, because…

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For me that's the magic of the printed page - we don't have to pay attention to the passage of time and…

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The first rule is you have to create a reality that makes the reader want to come back and see what happens…

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My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren't expecting, and take…

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I'd rather have Ben Affleck feeling something than twenty minutes of punching CGI Zod. You want moments that resonate with your audience.

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The challenge is, in terms of a canon like 'X-Men,' it's more like 'Harry Potter' and Hogwarts, or 'Game of Thrones.' It needs time…

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Look at 'Avatar:' the foreign ticket sales were over twice the domestic returns. The mind boggles at those kinds of numbers, but that's what…

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The key isn't winning -- or losing, it's making the attempt. I may never be what I ought to be, want to be --…

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All good communal storytelling comes from the sagas and arguments within the writers room.

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“I have a box at school, Storm, filled with photos of friends and famiy. They have one thing in common. They're all dead. How…

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The one immutable reality of film is, no matter how wonderful the actors and the performances are, every year the actors age and grow…

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I think there's a yin and a yang to everything.

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