Telgemeier Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Remember that death is the punctuation at the end of the sentence. It's up to us to decide what kind of punctuation it will be - a period or an exclamation point.

Richard Paul Evans

#3. Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

Andrea Dworkin

#4. I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!

Raina Telgemeier

#5. The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#6. I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life.

Raina Telgemeier

#7. New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave.

Raina Telgemeier

#8. 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

#9. Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.

Jeremiah Seed

#10. I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among 'The Baby-Sitters Club' characters. I was shy, but I was also kind of a tomboy, and I was really good at sticking my foot in my mouth even though I was shy.

Raina Telgemeier

#11. When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.

Adyashanti

#12. People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#13. His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.

James Joyce

#14. But you need more than love, Em. Sometimes you need common ground.

Karen Kingsbury

#15. All you can do is make your life have meaning, make it good -

Anne Rice

#16. Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.

Raina Telgemeier

#17. I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.

Raina Telgemeier

#18. I watched this documentary on Madonna. I remember I grew up hearing she wanted to rule the world. Actually, she worked really hard - really, really hard.

Winona Ryder

#19. Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.

Raina Telgemeier

#20. When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part!

Raina Telgemeier

#21. I know how long it takes me to draw a page, how long it takes me to complete a project, how long I can work before my hand gives out, that sort of thing.

Raina Telgemeier

#22. drama is a good book

Raina Telgemeier

#23. Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.

Robert A. Heinlein

#24. 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

#25. Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.

Raina Telgemeier

#26. The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.

Camille Paglia

#27. One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.

Jonathan Stroud

#28. You have what you say, not what anyone else says about you.

A. Bello

#29. I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trends, and I could never style my hair the way everyone else's was - my hair was very thin, so I couldn't do, like, the sprayed bangs everyone else was into.

Raina Telgemeier