Will Eisner Quotes
I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.
Quotes to Explore
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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?
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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If you can write it, I can be it.
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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.
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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.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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I'm not a great writer.
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I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
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When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.
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His lie ability is an asset.
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Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time.
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I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.
