Top 83 Hickman Quotes
#1. The hardest part about changing the new year is changing ourselves. We have to write each day differently than last year's days. If we do, we increase the chances we won't meet with last year's disappointments. Patricia Hickman
Patricia Hickman
#2. I'm not like Jonathan Hickman, who's able to sort of plot out three years of a book ahead of time. I'm much more of a guy who plots out an arc or two at a time.
Marc Guggenheim
#3. I think that between the egos of the actors and the wrestlers in this country we are taking away from the truly dedicated and informed people who should be getting their voice heard.
Dwayne Hickman
#4. Do you know what it's like to find yourself drawn to another person who gives you that missing piece? Who electrifies you with just the sound of his voice?
Trice Hickman
#5. I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.
Dwayne Hickman
#6. The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.
Dwayne Hickman
#7. In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my loss.
Martha Whitmore Hickman
#8. Riverwind: Why is it that you are called half-elf and not half-man?"
Tanis Half-Elven: "According to humans, half an elf is but part of a whole being. Half a man is a cripple.
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
#9. I started out hoping to remind people at some point in the novel that we should be loving and kind. But then the theme usurped my life, spilling over into my novels until love was no longer a small voice, but now my purpose as a writer.
Patricia Hickman
#10. I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work.
Jonathan Hickman
#11. Exploring an ever-expanding world of diverse cultures and beliefs is at the very heart of the 'Dragonships' series.
Tracy Hickman
#12. When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better.
Jonathan Hickman
#13. Humans need each other for equilibrium and support. But writers must pull aside to take a quiet walk alone, not just for the sake of serenity but to hear the Voice inside. That is how the storyteller connects with with others--listen, write, share.
Patricia Hickman
#14. There's that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That's the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon it long before maybe you're ready to let it go.
Jonathan Hickman
#15. ... forgiveness doesn't have to be synonymous with being a doormat.
Shelly Hickman
#16. Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid.
Dwayne Hickman
#17. The conflict each day is whether to immerse in books or writing. I can't do one without the other, but I can't do both at the same time. It is the writer's paradox.
Patricia Hickman
#18. I went back to film work after Dobie. I went back to film work after Dobie.
Dwayne Hickman
#19. You're either on team Republican or team Democrat, and it's the idea that one of these sides has a perfect record of being correct and is worth supporting on 100% of the causes. I find that kind of thinking extremely dangerous and very intellectually dishonest.
Jonathan Hickman
#20. I think that, whether you liked the outcome or not, the reasons for doing 'Ultimatum' were necessary. The Ultimate Universe had become too much like the regular Marvel Universe, and that was certainly not a good thing for the line.
Jonathan Hickman
#21. Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline.
Libbie Hickman
#22. '100 Bullets' is probably my favorite thing, ever. It's pretty close with early 'Hellboy' stuff.
Jonathan Hickman
#23. There is no pain you or anyone could inflict on me worse than the pain I bear within myself.
Tracy Hickman
#25. If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!
Dwayne Hickman
#26. Dobie was so well written and so ahead of its time.
Dwayne Hickman
#27. There is a scene in one comic from the '60s-'70s where Batman finds a film, a newsreel film, of his father. This newsreel film is from the '50s, and his father has come to this costume ball in a Zorro costume, which strangely enough looks a lot like a Batman suit in the footage.
Tracy Hickman
#28. Some couples could not work together but we enjoy working on our projects and building our art business.
Dwayne Hickman
#29. Noble words, my friend; you can't drink them or wrap them around your feet or burn them in your firepit or give them to children crying in hunger ... They will cry for a month, then they will eat his share of the food. And wouldn't he want it that way?
Tracy Hickman
#30. As soon as you start focusing on the negative you're dead.
Libbie Hickman
#31. I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings.
Dwayne Hickman
#32. My background with Cummings was rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, but Tuesday liked to walk in and do the scene. I must say that she was really wonderful. Aggravating, but wonderful.
Dwayne Hickman
#33. Love sends a man half way around the world ...
Just for the hope of catching it.
Jonathan Hickman
#35. God's best work occurs in the margins. If we have the courage to step into that wide-open space, God will meet us there.
Lisa Nichols Hickman
#36. The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party.
Jonathan Hickman
#37. There's a thing, Father, where men who have thought they were giants their entire lives actually see one for the first time.
It sparks a reaction.
It shows them their true worth.
It shows them their place.
Jonathan Hickman
#38. I think it's good that we're not embarrassed that we're comic book creators anymore. It's good that people are able to make a good living at doing it, and not doing the traditional sort of mainstream fare.
Jonathan Hickman
#39. Raistlin opened his eyes, looking at her without recognition. And in them, she saw deep, undying sorrow
the look of one who has been permitted to enter a realm of deadly, perilous beauty, and who now finds himself, once more, cast down into the grey, rain-swept world.
Tracy Hickman
#40. One of the wonderful things about Batman is that he is just a man. He doesn't have superpowers or extraordinary powers other than his tremendous intellect and physical prowess.
Tracy Hickman
#41. Artwise, I'm kind of a chameleon. I don't have an established style or anything like that.
Jonathan Hickman
#42. -Besides, lead someone down an unknown road and soon there're completely lost without you. I just have to keep the others from interfering for a short while. Any suggestions?
-Kill them.
-Kill them.
-Kill them.
-Kill them.
-Hmmm. Okay.
Jonathan Hickman
#43. I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.
Jonathan Hickman
#44. Warren Beatty has always acted like a Movie Star even when no one knew who he was.
Dwayne Hickman
#45. Acting in its purest form is an urge from deep in the human psyche to celebrate our aliveness, to act our dreams and fantasies in a public display of our most private selves.
Darryl Hickman
#46. The show has brought a lot of pleasure and entertainment to an entire generation of Baby Boomers and now their own teens who watch the show on cable.
Dwayne Hickman
#47. What words are in you that can change the world?
Tracy Hickman
#48. Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.
Dwayne Hickman
#49. How much wrong have we done unintentionally, meaning the best
Tracy Hickman
#50. One of the things about a great team is that the whole exceeds the sum of its partners.
Tracy Hickman
#51. Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.
Dwayne Hickman
#52. In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!
Dwayne Hickman
#53. Don't be ridiculous! Mystic arts be damned, a dog with machine guns is always problematic.
Jonathan Hickman
#54. As far as personal philosophies go, I think you should know your ending. I know that's radically different from a lot of other writers who just organically like to find the story. Other than that, I try different things and mess around. I'm still just playing a good bit.
Jonathan Hickman
#55. I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did it on, like, Piers Anthony and Raymond Feist.
Jonathan Hickman
#56. We planned for betrayal. They planned for deceit. No one ever thought to plan for harmony.
Jonathan Hickman
#57. The central character is an incomplete package of yearning that takes the length of the novel to complete. Completion, though, is not to be confused with perfection.
Patricia Hickman
#59. It is your only way home, my brother! And maybe our only way out of here alive.
Tracy Hickman
#60. I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment of my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment.
Tracy Hickman
#62. Do you know what the people will say about this day thousands of years from now? What they will say about these creatures and their valiant last stand? Nothing... because we will not tell them. Oblivion is all there is for--
Jonathan Hickman
#63. The Things That Divide Us Are Stronger Than The Things That Unite Us.
Jonathan Hickman
#64. As for inflicting our sorrow on other people, one does not want to go around blathering and crying all the time. But perhaps it is our gift to others to trust them enough to share our feelings with them. It may help them deal with some of their own.
Martha Whitmore Hickman
#65. That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.
Dwayne Hickman
#66. The catalyst of action is intent.
It's the other end of the bullet.
Jonathan Hickman
#67. I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.
Jonathan Hickman
#68. The thing that probably trips me up the most are people getting tattoos of stuff that I've designed in my books. That always spins me out in a weird way. It seems like such a permanent commitment to something I've done. I don't know that I could do that for anyone else.
Jonathan Hickman
#69. I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.
Dwayne Hickman
#70. Yu come face to face with love, and before the sun sets you've become someone you didn't used to be...
It's the reason a wolf would chase a crow, even knowing he can't fly and she don't ever need to touch the ground.
Jonathan Hickman
#71. An ambitious and beautifully produced fever dream. Don't wake me up, I want to stay in.
Jonathan Hickman
#72. When our identities are tethered to externals, our sense of self-worth is always in danger. In the end, we become hypersensitive, insecure, and discontent, always comparing ourselves to the next parent, the next young professional, the next pastor across town. But
David Hickman
#73. No. It's not a game. This is the world. It is not the one we were supposed to have, but it's the one we made.
We did this. We did it with open eyes and willing hands. We broke it, and there is no putting it back together.
But I'm damned already... so at least I'm going to try.
Jonathan Hickman
#75. ...how gracious seem the small gifts that may come - a patch of sunlight on a cold floor, an unexpected gesture of friendship, the fragrant steam of hot tea.
Martha Whitmore Hickman
#76. I do believe that sci-fi or historical fiction finds an easy home in comics because there are no budget constraints in regards to the necessary world-building or visual effects necessary to bring those stories to life in other mediums.
Jonathan Hickman
#77. You need not be afeerd. Wm. Shakespeare The Tempest
Gerald Hickman
#78. Tanis blinked with disbelief, then he heard a sound behind him that nearly made him leap into a tree in panic. He whirled around, heart in his throat, sword in his hand. Raistlin was laughing.
Tracy Hickman
#79. Sometimes people do much wrong unintentionally, meaning for the best
Tracy Hickman
#80. My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.
Jonathan Hickman
#83. Listen, I'm going to tell you this because no one else will, Franklin. Spider-Man sucks.
Jonathan Hickman
