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"In a sense, the artwork is the most important thing in getting somebody to buy a book. The person probably won't buy a book if he doesn't like the artwork. Once you buy it for the artwork, you hope that the story will also be good."
"When you combine the great stories from the comics with the action and visual excitement of the movies, it doesn't get any better!"
"As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes up. Then there's a backlash, and if folks stop pushing, it goes down. Let's face it, it's a lot more complicated."
"Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start."
"I'm very interested in film making. It's telling a story, fiction or non-fiction. I have been filmed quite a lot. Contrary to popular belief, filming isn't glamorous. It can be wearingly repetitious, as the same shot is taken over and over again."
"Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories."
"... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell."
"So much of science proceeds by telling stories."
"...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages."
"Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us."
"A short story is like a kiss in the dark."
"I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground."
"When I start a story, I don't know where it's going."
"Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy."
"The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent."
"Politics always change. Stories never do."
"That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments."
"Without story books is like a person with no soul."
"When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story."
"Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story."
