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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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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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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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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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 opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
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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 am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
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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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I'm really open to just about anything but I think the real dream is to be able to write my own thing.
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No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
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An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.
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Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?
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I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.
