Top 38 Mike Mignola Quotes
#1. Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own.
Christopher Golden
#2. Know, Goodwife, that Faerie is shaped by storytellers. Their fantasies, their dreams give my realm life. We were dying, all of us, from the smallest nixie to highborn sidhe, for want of a storyteller.
Eugie Foster
#3. A constant discomfort derives from this--writing these sentences, or any other for that matter--I am writing an ad for the war. With that, every utterance about freedom finishes.
Semezdin Mehmedinovic
#4. I was lucky enough myself to have been in Dad's Army for an episode.
John Leeson
#5. I've always been much more comfortable with drawing fantasy stuff.
Mike Mignola
#6. When the first 'Hellboy' series came out, in the same batch of fan mail I got a letter from somebody from the Church of Satan, and I got a letter from a minister, and they both liked it. And I thought, 'What am I doing that I'm making both these guys happy?'
Mike Mignola
#7. There's a ton of stuff in mythology and folklore that is loaded with wonderful creatures that I haven't drawn yet, but that's kind of my retirement plan. Theoretically, I won't be doing comics any longer, and I'll just be drawing and painting whatever the hell I want. Most of that will be monsters.
Mike Mignola
#8. The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more in a print.
Henri Rousseau
#9. Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble.
Mike Mignola
#10. There's no point in me going to mixers and getting attached to people when I'm only going to be there nine months. *
Jenny Han
#11. Hello carnivore,' said the mouse priest. He turned and bowed to Uncle Mike and Dominic. 'Hail to the High Priest of Goddammit Eat Something Already, and to the God of Hard Choices in Dark Places.' Ryan blinked. 'What?' 'It's a mouse thing, just roll with it, you'll be happier that way,' I advised.
Seanan McGuire
#12. To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.
Italo Svevo
#13. Since the beginning of the world, a prayer is a prayer and a curse is a curse
no matter the people
no matter the language
Man has given a thousand different namesto his god, but look into the face of each one
long enough
hard enough
You will find one truth.
Mike Mignola
#14. The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.
Mike Mignola
#15. Oh dear, here were go again, thought Vimes. Why did I wait until I was married to become strangely attractive to powerful women? Why didn't it happen to me when I was sixteen? I could have done with it then. He
Terry Pratchett
#16. Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons.
Mike Mignola
#17. I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president.
Robert Dallek
#18. I'm sure this is a diversionary ploy. But that doesn't mean it isn't real.
-Abe Sapien
John Arcudi
#19. Neither of us moves for a moment, locked instead in each other's eyes and in the branches of this Hill we might never finish climbing.
Ally Condie
#21. When I started the 'Hellboy' series way back when, I wasn't really thinking consciously about the humor, but Hellboy does have my personality, and that's an important part of my personality.
Mike Mignola
#22. I'd be the first to admit that I have no shortage of faults.
But if I had to pick one, the one that's gotten me into the most trouble over the years...
...it would be that I sometimes get angry.
Mike Mignola
#23. My struggle over the years has constantly been, it only takes 10 minutes, or an average shower, to come up with a mini-series or two, but it takes a year to draw them. So for me, it's been just trying to find a way to get all these ideas and all these incidents on paper.
Mike Mignola
#24. I'm thinking about color all the time. Sometimes even as far back as the plotting sequence.
Mike Mignola
#25. This is a grave. There is no honor here in broken tools and old bones, only in the deeds of our children.
Mike Mignola
#26. No rain but thunder, and the sound of giants.
Mike Mignola
#27. Okay, I know I said I wasn't going to shake things up, but we're going to have to get some pants on this one.
Mike Mignola
#28. With a rasping cough, the vampire shakes its head. It was you who called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of your cannons shook us from our quiet graves ...
Mike Mignola
#29. I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.
St. Vincent
#30. I did not say it was true, only that I believe it.
Mike Mignola
#31. When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before.
William Irwin Thompson
#32. Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
Zig Ziglar
#33. There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we
Ina May Gaskin
#34. I do think there's a difference when you see a book where you can tell the creator's doing something they really love or are really passionate about as opposed to an artist or a writer who is just doing a particular job or trying to sell a product or trying to cash in on a popular trend.
Mike Mignola
#35. The idea of a Frankenstein-like creature is something I've done several times. It's such an icon of the horror scene.
Mike Mignola
#36. Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure ... but now you've just gone nuts!
Mike Mignola
#37. But if there must be an end, let it be loud. Let it be bloody. Better to burn than to wither away in the dark.
Mike Mignola
#38. I've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked.
Mike Mignola
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