Will Eisner Quotes

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Will Eisner

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• Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Good
  • Book

• I am stable when my private life is a success.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Life
  • Success
  • Private Life

• Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Art
  • Creation
  • Temperament

• ... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • History

• There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Giving
  • Succeed
  • Failing

• It's too bad for us "literary" enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless -- pictures tell any story more effectively than words . . . If children will read comics . . . why isn't it advisable to give them some constructive comics to read?.

  

  William Moulton Marston
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Constructive

• Weight control does have to be for a lifetime or you'll be yo-yoing.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Control
  • Weight

• If you're going for things that are really terrible ideas you have to really have all your faculties about you to get away with them without being crucified. The best rock music gets away with something, somehow, that it shouldn't be allowed to get away with.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
  • Faculties
  • Rock Music
  • Terrible Thing

• I don't know. I think you're born with that. I've always been somebody that enjoys life. I want to be happy in it, and I've always been that way. Since I was a kid, I really was somebody that was active. It's just an inner drive, and a willingness to lead a good life.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Enjoy

• I know you. I know this isn't you. And even if it is, I still love you. As much as I always have. You will always be mine. I will always love you, I promised you that when you left, and it's true now.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • I Know
  • I Love You
  • Promised

• There's all kinds of crazy right-wing conspiracies about me.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Crazy
  • Conspiracies

• It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition. That is indeed difficult.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

  

  Will Eisner
  • Historical
  • Contempt
  • Medium