Gail Simone Quotes

#1. Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.

Sebastian Junger

#2. We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

Sophocles

#3. The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.

Beth Moore

#4. I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.

John O. Brennan

#5. There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make life difficult for your editor. But once a piece of crap goes out with your name on it, it is gone forever and will haunt you ...

Gail Simone

#6. The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

W. Somerset Maugham

#7. When you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman. When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But when you need to end a war, you get Wonder Woman.

Gail Simone

#8. It means food on every table, every child in school, a job for everybody and a house with toilet and electricity for every family. This can be achieved through unity. Unity strengthens us. Division weakens us.

Narendra Modi

#9. Your writing is still yours, no matter what the contract or your editor might say. Trust your gut. It knows when you're screwing up. Your brain will lie to you. It loves the paycheck, it loves positive feedback. Your gut is under no obligation to make you feel good.

Gail Simone

#10. If you need to stop an asteroid, you call Superman. If you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But if you need to end a war, you call Wonder Woman.

Gail Simone

#11. Rich people are those who know that the best is yet to come.

Phil Callaway

#12. I get mail from people all over the world now from people who tell me that they didn't really understand Down syndrome, but because of me they have read about it and studied it and now they know a lot more about it.

Lauren Potter

#13. If I am to die tonight, let me die a fighter.

Gail Simone

#14. In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.

George Mackay Brown

#15. I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.

Gail Simone

#16. I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox, somehow.

Gail Simone

#17. I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I'm a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.

Adam Christopher

#18. Don't let the worst people you know dictate your behavior.

Gail Simone

#19. A dean is the conductor of an orchestra made up entirely of composers.

Mark William Roche

#20. Keep faith, trust to love, fight with honor, but fight to win,

Gail Simone

#21. If you wanted a peek at my dick I would have sent pictures," Levi growled.

Katie Reus

#22. Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes.

Gail Simone

#23. When I need guidance or just to kvetch or to bounce ideas off of people, I go to Gail Simone, who is very much kind of the den mother of all of us who are working comics.

G. Willow Wilson

#24. When people lost hope, they looked in the last place they remembered having it, and it was always in the past. Maybe someday they'd stop looking to the past to find their hope and start looking at one another, where hope really lived.

Tiffany Reisz

#25. The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#26. All fear comes from trying to see the future, Biff. If you know what is coming, you aren't afraid.

Christopher Moore

#27. You will never be admired without being criticized first.

Grant Cardone