Will Eisner Quotes

I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.

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• I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Believe
  • Love
  • For Him

• To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • People
  • Things
  • Honest

• If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writer
  • Dead
  • Hostility

• My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Great
  • Write
  • Grandmother

• I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Writer
  • Just
  • Reader

• I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Write
  • Diary

• If you can write it, I can be it.

  

  Karen Black
  • You
  • Write
  • I Can

• Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Man
  • Honest
  • Blues

• I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Blessed

• I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Think
  • Write
  • Difficult

• I'm not a great writer.

  

  E. L. James
  • Great
  • Writer
  • Great Writer

• I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Think
  • Write
  • Shopping

• I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Human
  • Emotion
  • Writer

• When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Science

• My parents are really honest when they watch something. My nan is brutally honest. She'll tell me, 'Oh, you looked awful in that scene,' and I'm like, 'Well, I was giving birth at the time, so it probably worked with the character, Nan.'

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Character
  • Parents
  • Honest

• We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Write
  • Human Beings
  • Impulse

• The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Write

• The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Author
  • Writer
  • Become

• A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Children
  • Dance
  • Writer

• We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Play
  • Hand
  • Happiness

• We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind.

  

  Ben Klassen
  • History
  • Mankind
  • Creators

• I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Blood
  • Dutch
  • Norwegian

• I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.

  

  Will Eisner
  • Write
  • Honest
  • Writer