Ryan North Quotes
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You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The first mp3 I downloaded, which I guess was illegal, was a symphonic rendering of the Super Mario Brothers 1-1 theme song. It was great. I was like, 'This is blowing MIDI files out of the water. This is the future, right here.'
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I actually put Jubilee in 'Squirrel Girl.' I made it a priority.
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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.
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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.
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The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him can read as comic for us.
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You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too.
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No offense to real jobs, but comics seemed a lot more fun.
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I see Jughead as being generally this really rational dude, this anchor of sensibility in a world of boy/girl-crazy friends.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Writing 'Jughead' in general is a pleasure because - and I think a lot of very tall guys can agree with me on this - there was a time in my teenage years where I just ate all the time and never got full.
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I've never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven't is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into a book and realizing I'd made a mistake on word three that would mean throwing everything out.
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Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity.
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This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool.
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It's good to have hobbies.
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Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics.
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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.
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You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone's going to be into what you're doing.
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Yes, I've won prizes for putting words on a computer.