Top 100 Wein Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Wein

#1. Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.

Miles Davis

#2. I think every time you take a female character, a black character, a Hispanic character, a gay character, and make that the point of the character, you are minimalizing the character,

Len Wein

#3. In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.

Len Wein

#4. If I am very lucky - I mean if I am clever about it - I will get myself shot. Here, soon.

Elizabeth Wein

#5. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Len Wein

#6. It's an illusion I've noticed before
words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.

Elizabeth Wein

#7. If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.

Len Wein

#8. I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

Len Wein

#9. That would be a slow and cruel death," said Gebe Meskal quietly. "He may survive a week on such a regime, but so little of a skin is not sufficient water for a man laboring in the desert."

Telemakos said through his teeth, "It is for a child.

Elizabeth Wein

#10. Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

Elizabeth Wein

#11. Maddie took the top of her egg off. The hot bright yolk was like summer sun breaking through cloud. The first daffodil in the snow. A gold sovereign wrapped in a white silk handkerchief. She dipped her spoon in it and licked it.

Elizabeth Wein

#12. There's glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will

Elizabeth Wein

#13. I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. I have spent a lifetime doing what I love.

Len Wein

#14. Queenie, herself again, took hold of Maddie's hand and squeezed it tightly. She walked all the way back across the airfield without letting it go. Maddie closed her eyes and flew again in the ethereal pale green light. She knew she would never let it go.

Elizabeth Wein

#15. Teach your boy to fly, and he will be safe from spears and antique rifles." "I don't want him to go to war at all!" "When it comes, you will have no choice. The only way to save him is to lift him above the crowd.

Elizabeth Wein

#16. Taran. We go down fighting.

Elizabeth Wein

#17. I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

Len Wein

#18. She whispered, 'C'etait la Verite?' Was that Verity? Or perhaps she just meant, Was that the truth? Was it true? Did any of it really happen? Were the last three hours real? 'Yes,' I whispered back. 'Oui. C'etait la verite.

Elizabeth Wein

#19. KISS ME, HARDY! Kiss me, QUICK!

Elizabeth Wein

#20. Don't you ever do that to me."
"You know you'll never make as much of a fool of yourself as Horatio Augustus. So I won't have to.

Elizabeth Wein

#21. I'm not interested in selling out my career for a big paycheck. I would love to live a little more comfortably, but it is very important for me to try and maintain my soul and integrity as a filmmaker in as big of a way as possible.

Daryl Wein

#22. In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

Len Wein

#23. What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

Len Wein

#24. Here he comes, moving among the enemies all on his own. Do you see? He acts alone, but he is not alone. He has an army behind him, also, my army; and with our lives we will fight to defend him.

Elizabeth Wein

#25. Julie would have died there.

Elizabeth Wein

#26. Kiss me, Hardy!' Weren't those Nelson's last words at the Battle of Trafalgar? Don't cry. We're still alive and we make a sensational team.

Elizabeth Wein

#27. Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

Len Wein

#28. When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

Len Wein

#29. She tried not to think about what it would be like running across the airfield to the radio room an hour from now, under fire. But she did it. Because you do. It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to.

Elizabeth Wein

#30. But I've never despised myself so much as I did that day - she was so small and - so fierce, so beautiful, it was like breaking a hawk's wings, stopping up a clear spring with bricks - digging up roses to make space to park your tank. Pointless and ugly.

Elizabeth Wein

#31. We are a sensational team

Elizabeth Wein

#32. I'm just looking at whatever moment I'm at, trying to tell a story that at that time feels like it needs to be told, like I want to see it and how I'm feeling in my life.

Daryl Wein

#33. We make a sensational team.

Elizabeth Wein

#34. There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

Len Wein

#35. I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself.

Len Wein

#36. He just put his hand through the bulkhead, exactly as she'd done, and squeezed my shoulder. He has very strong fingers.
And he kept his hand there the whole way home, even when he was reading the map and giving me headings.
So I am not flying alone now after all.

Elizabeth Wein

#37. Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.

Elizabeth Wein

#38. I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

Len Wein

#39. I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

Len Wein

#40. It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.

Len Wein

#41. The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes.

Len Wein

#42. I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.

Len Wein

#43. Maddie quickly pulled down the blackout curtains over her bright and vulnerable soul.

Elizabeth Wein

#44. Please come back soon. The window is always open.

Elizabeth Wein

#45. I wish you could go through life without ever caring about anything, without ever getting attached to people and dreams and inaccessible places. It just makes you sad when you can never go back.

Elizabeth Wein

#46. I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

Len Wein

#47. The digital formats keep changing so rapidly. I feel like so many people are shooting digital but the quality is being lost. There's a texture and a richness to the 35 format that's incomparable.

Daryl Wein

#48. When you're an artist, your personal life and your professional life kind of blend together. I'm writing from home so I don't have an office or anything. I don't know where to draw the line between "Okay, let's stop now and watch American Idol."

Daryl Wein

#49. I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

Len Wein

#50. Don't you think it makes them stronger when you give them someone to despise?

Elizabeth Wein

#51. Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

Len Wein

#52. Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

Elizabeth Wein

#53. These trials aren't about revenge. They're about justice. Don't you want justice, Rose Justice?

Elizabeth Wein

#54. I have nothing to lose. I am going to dare it. I will aim for the sun.

Elizabeth Wein

#55. You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Len Wein

#56. I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

Len Wein

#57. Would the Holy One, Blessed is he, dispense judgment without justice? But we may say that he whom God loves will be chastised. For since the day the Holy Temple was destroyed, the righteous are seized by death for the iniquities of the generation

Berel Wein

#58. If you're scared, do something.

Elizabeth Wein

#59. Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.

Len Wein

#60. In trust and wisdom you can be as far superior to anyone as you dare make yourself.

Elizabeth Wein

#61. I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.

Elizabeth Wein

#62. Where I fail in accuracy, I hope I make up for it in plausibility.

Elizabeth Wein

#63. But while they stayed down, rolling around and trying to kill each other, Em jumped to her feet.
Her costumes sometimes have little finishing touches that no one can see. She hadn't told me about this one.

Elizabeth Wein

#64. It's impossible to stall a Lizzie.

Elizabeth Wein

#65. People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.

Len Wein

#66. You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die.

Elizabeth Wein

#67. Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

Len Wein

#68. The fuss made over the chickens at the checkpoints is not to be believed. Unlike me they had their own papers.

Elizabeth Wein

#69. Godless as I am, I pray she's got away with it. It's like ripples in a pond, isn't it? It doesn't stop in one place.

Elizabeth Wein

#70. I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.

Len Wein

#71. When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

Len Wein

#72. Incredible. It is just incredible that you can notice something like that when your face is so cold you can't feel it anymore, and you know perfectly well you are surrounded by death, and the only way to stay alive is to endure the howling wind and hold your course. And still the sky is beautiful.

Elizabeth Wein

#73. He wept when they told him you were no longer allowed to see him. He WEPT. How much weeping have you done on his account, girl?"

"I wake up screaming every night on his account.

Elizabeth Wein

#74. A whore, we've established that, filthy, it goes without saying, but whatever else the hell I am, I AM NOT ENGLISH.

Elizabeth Wein

#75. I learned very quickly that if you just go out and make something and maybe fail at it or you just learn how to edit it yourself. I edited my last films. You just do it yourself. You feel so creatively empowered and you're controlling your own destiny as artists.

Daryl Wein

#76. High time they put the RAF in kilts.

Elizabeth Wein

#77. Unless you were doing them a favor by killing them. Then, you'd let them down if you didn't, if you couldn't make yourself.

Elizabeth Wein

#78. Sometimes I feel as if the only thing I can do is write. It helps me think.

Elizabeth Wein

#79. There is no end," I said. "Only the beginning of something else.

Elizabeth Wein

#80. It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.

Elizabeth Wein

#81. Whenever I'm looking for actors, I'm always looking for actors who are intelligent and who feel fresh and who feel authentic to the world.

Daryl Wein

#82. Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.

George Wein

#83. When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.

Len Wein

#84. Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

Elizabeth Wein

#85. I think women become more wrapped up emotionally in men when sex is involved. And I think men have a much easier time of having innocuous, meaningless sex for pleasure. It's just how we're built genetically.

Daryl Wein

#86. A part of me will always be unflyable, stuck in the climb.

Elizabeth Wein

#87. Oh Julie, wouldn't I know if you were dead? Wouldn't I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?

Elizabeth Wein

#88. The anticipation of what they will do to you is every bit as sickening in a dream as when it is really going to happen.

Elizabeth Wein

#89. When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good, but not quite professional yet. But, I like the writing." I've been a writer for almost a half a century. It's very cool.

Len Wein

#90. A poet and a doctor. Maybe I could.
This the first thought I have of it. Maybe I could.

Elizabeth Wein

#91. Men are always looking for what's better and women are just looking for what works.

Daryl Wein

#92. FLY THE PLANE, MADDIE.

Elizabeth Wein

#93. Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.

Elizabeth Wein

#94. I would like immortality.

Len Wein

#95. There is only one reason I did not go down in flames over the Angers, and that is because I knew I had Julie in the back. Would never have had the presence of mind to put that fire out if I hadn't been trying to save her life.

Elizabeth Wein