Books Quote by Joss Whedon Download Open image “I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.” — Joss Whedon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Comic Comic book Comic books Kept Mom Off Pay Reading Telling Would
I entered high school she[ my mother] said, "Well, you're a teenager now, and comics are for kids, so you shouldn't read them anymore,"… — Trina Robbins Copy Share Image
I read a lot of comics growing up. My mom used to say, 'Would you please read a book?' She was worried where I… — Erica Durance Copy Share Image
My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
That's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away." But when I was… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
My mother taught me to read in part by reading me Walt Disney comics, and I never stopped. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
My dad taught me to read by reading comic strips in the Saturday paper and Archie comics. — Melanie Scrofano Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I read comics. But when I saw how funny it was, and how wonderfully absurd, I said, "You know,… — Adam West Copy Share Image
I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an extraordinary woman,… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“Why aren’t you asking a hundred other guys why they don’t write strong women characters? I believe that what I’m doing should not be… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up. The fun is not that much different from doing a television show: You're… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image