Reader Notebooks Quotes

#1. I write the book for one person - for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she'll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It's a really weird job but I enjoy it.

Brian K. Vaughan

#2. The yellow Lego was brick-shaped again. Pretending innocence.

William Gibson

#3. Fate doesn't guarantee us a happy ending. We're not promised to be together no matter what. But in dimension after dimension, world after world, fate gives us a chance. Our destiny isn't some kind of mystical prophecy. Our destiny is what we do with that chance.

Claudia Gray

#4. He's hit! He's hit!" Pigpen flies into view, gun drawn and on the prowl to kill.

Katie McGarry

#5. when you are among the fields and hedgerows, it is impossible to maintain a consistent superiority to simple natural pleasures.

George Eliot

#6. The bitch is very nice. She is as sweet as a Georgia peach. But inside every sweet peach is a strong pit. And this means she won't explain the obvious when a man is disrespectful.

Sherry Argov

#7. What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.

Mark Twain

#8. Sometimes one of my ways of choosing movies that I want to do is if it's the kind of movie I would have gone to see when I was a kid, and this is a movie I actually did go see, as a kid. And I think it will be exciting for audiences to see now.

Samuel L. Jackson

#9. You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.

Annie Dillard