Brandon Mull Quotes
Who is the coolest author ever? Is it the guy who wrote Fablehaven? If not, what’s the matter with you?

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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author and editor Karl Edward Wagner: Any agent who charges to look at your work is a crook.
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While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.
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I am the freest author in the world.
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An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
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Obviously there's a lot more to a TV show than just a book... I think adaptations are a bit tricky for the screenwriters because they're worried about upsetting the author.
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I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
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Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.
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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
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The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.
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My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.
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We became the songs we wrote.
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Having been selected to be an author in the World Book, I now believe that Wikipedia is a perfectly fine source for your information, because I know what the quality control is for real encyclopedias - they let me in.
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If you exclude your talent base from the benefits of hiring and deploying and making women successful, you're going to do less well than businesses that do a better job on that front.
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I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
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The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.
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Who is the coolest author ever? Is it the guy who wrote Fablehaven? If not, what’s the matter with you?