Smile Raina Telgemeier Quotes

#1. History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.

William L. Shirer

#2. Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.

Wayne Dyer

#3. I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.

Raina Telgemeier

#4. I've never believed in God. But I believe in Picasso.

Diego Rivera

#5. The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.

Alice Munro

#6. Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're a working woman or you're not. I'm raising two girls, and I say to them, 'I need you to be strong and soft. You can be smart and beautiful ... You can be all of these things.'

Maria Shriver

#7. The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

Malorie Blackman

#8. All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.

Raina Telgemeier

#9. My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.

Gerard Way

#10. Somethin' about you, sugar, it's makin' everything I believe in feel like it never existed.

Bella Jewel

#11. When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off!'

Raina Telgemeier