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- You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning,…
- I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.
- Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I…
- These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.
- When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.
- In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able…
- I would like immortality.
- I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.
- I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.
- A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.
- There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.
- I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point.
- I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.
- I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.
- I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.
- I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.
- If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.
- In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.
- It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.
- Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.
- The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?
- Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.
- What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.
- When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is…
- People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake…
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- You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey
- I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at… — Andre Agassi
- Paparazzi need more flattering lenses. — Sandra Bullock
- Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all.… — Graydon Carter
- Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at… — Helena Bonham Carter
- It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the… — Chuck Close
- Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture. — Brian D. McLaren
- Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit… — Anderson Cooper
- In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified. — John Updike
- Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results… — Martin Gardner
- It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems… — Kenichi Ohmae
- If I had stood at the free-throw line and thought about 10 million people watching me on the other side of the… — Michael Jordan