Mcduffie Quotes

#1. Dwayne McDuffie was one of my favorite writers. When I was growing up, he was one of the few African Americans working in American comics.

Gene Luen Yang

#2. You don't feel as real if you don't see yourself reflected in the media [ ... ] There's something very powerful about seeing yourself represented.

Dwayne McDuffie

#3. I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a line edit or a copy edit that you felt queasy about and didn't want to take, but took anyway.

Donna Tartt

#4. If we only save the finger of one man, that's enough.

James Longstreet

#5. If you ask most atheists if the theory of evolution has anything to do with a belief, however, they will tell you that it doesn't. It's not something that has to be believed. It is a 'fact.'

Ray Comfort

#6. Among other things, don't start with the beer.

Michael J. Fox

#7. I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate language with which to tell the story: This seems to me quintessentially human, one of the great adventures of our species.

Joyce Carol Oates

#8. I was born in Detroit. I never really saw myself working in comics, I just fell into it. But it's been one of the best things to happen to a kid from Detroit.

Dwayne McDuffie

#9. I've never met a size zero person. Is Paris Hilton a size zero? I've met her. She looked very thin, but she looked very healthy. She had beautiful skin.

Marie Helvin

#10. My first priority is my family. I am human. But my whole family knows what my priority is. Family is always first. But my work is under nothing else, except God.

Lil' Wayne

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Javad Ramezani

#12. I think the biggest advice I can offer is don't just pick one story and stop, write as much as you can, as many stories as you can. The best thing about being a writer is, a writer's craft is nearly perfect because a writer can go anywhere and do his craft.

Dwayne McDuffie

#13. What is it that ties shapes of land to the human heart, Mo?

David Mitchell

#14. But I don't believe coincidences are chance events. I think they're the times we happen to see the mysterious pattern connecting everything.

Julie Gittus

#15. Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. I've always felt that the cool thing about being a writer is that all you need is paper to do the job.

Dwayne McDuffie

#17. Our country needs people who are maybe a little less focused on themselves and on the flash and a little more focused on how do we actually create a better environment for success for our young people, how do we get people back to work, how do we regain our standing internationally.

Rob Portman

#18. When Mother smiled, no matter how nice her face had been before, it became incomparably nicer and everything around seemed to brighten up as well.

Leo Tolstoy

#19. My fan fiction is canon.

Dwayne McDuffie