“What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.” ThinkingBelieveLooksChildrenBookInformationJudgingWasteOur ChildrenSpendingLeapGatheringBetter OffHasteDeliberationJudging A Book By Its CoverHaste Makes Waste Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.” KnowsNeedsLooksBookBigsSpaceImagineWallPagesEmptyMirrorsBoxesOver YouThickElegant Author:Carter Ratcliff
“Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird.” ThinkingLooksBookRealLife IsReal Life Author:Kelly Link
“There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature - and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away. Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That’s one big horror story. And it’s the most popular book on the planet.” NeedsHumansLooksMayHas BeensBookStoriesBigsLiteratureFictionHellFieldsPlanetsHorrorDevilGhostGiantsGoing AwayWitchResurrectionUps & DownsHuman SocietyStaplesGhost StoriesHorror StoriesPopular Book Author:Bentley Little
“If you look at the record books, Dale Earnhardt's done everything, except win the Daytona 500. Now they can't have that riding over him. Now they're just going to say, 'Dale Earnhardt, 1998 Daytona 500 winner,' and his shoulders are going to get lighter every time.” IfsLooksBookDoneWinningRecordsShouldersWinnerRidingLightersDaytonaDaytona 500 Author:Ernie Irvan
“A tell-all book by David Axelrod, one of President Obama's former strategists, reveals that Obama chose Joe Biden as his VP because of his energy and enthusiasm. You know, the qualities you look for in someone whose main job is traveling to state funerals.” KnowsLooksBookStatesJobsEnergyPresidentQualityEnthusiasmFormerFuneralPresident ObamaStrategistBidenEnergy And Enthusiasm Author:Jimmy Fallon
“There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.” PeopleShouldLooksLongBookFactsCareAbleNamesMistakeStupidLessonsProveListsEmbarrassingHistory BooksGood History Book:The Big Picture: An American Commentary Source: The Big Picture: An American Commentary
“But you have to look at your work with an honest critical eye. Work on the things that you need work on. Scare yourself. Surprise yourself. If you don't like the way it's going, you have complete control over changing the course. That's one of the best things about doing this.” IfsWayNeedsLooksBookEyeCoursesHonestSurpriseCriticalComicBest ThingsScareComic Book Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“When I went to Stan Lee - every time I was with Stan, I learned something every day. When I would do a pencil job, if I didn't have much faith in it I would hand it in and invariably Stan would make it look like it was a well-written and well-planned-out story. It made me tell people, 'If you want to become an artist, go to work at Marvel. Stan will turn you into a storyteller.'” PeopleIfsWantWellsLooksMadeBookStoriesHandsJobsArtistTurnsWrittenComicComic BookStorytellerPencilsWell Written Author:John Romita, Sr.
“What keeps this industry alive is creators doing their own work. Once you change a costume or origin enough times, it's a dead body - you're just electrocuting it and keeping it sort of shambling on. There is a lot more creator-owned stuff now, and some of it I look at and go, 'Oh, that's his pitch for a TV show. That's his pitch for a movie. That's him saying oh, this kind of thing sells.' I didn't do that.” LooksKindBookEnoughShowsBodyStuffAliveTvsIndustrySellsCreatorComicComic BookTv ShowsCostumesEnough Time Author:Mike Mignola
“I remember attending Toronto Comicon shortly after the release of Captain Marvel and seeing a five-year-old girl who'd come in a handmade Captain Marvel outfit with her hair moussed up - and I totally got the need for this book, for this hero. Someone who looks like her, and acts like her. So, in a way, Captain Marvel helped pave the road to the expanded role of female leads.” WayNeedsYearsLooksBookRememberGirlRolesFiveSeeingHairHeroFemaleReleaseComicFive YearsCaptainsComic BookAttendingLike HerTorontoFive Year OldsHandmade Author:Axel Alonso
“I took one glance at her in that hospital bed under the dull light and recognised the look on her face, which I'd seen on donors often enough before. It was like she was willing her eyes to see right inside herself, so she could patrol and marshal all the better the separate areas of pain in her body.” LooksBookEnoughBodyLightEyePainFacesLanguageWillingBedAreasDullHospitalsHer EyesGlancesDonors Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
“Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that take what she describes as an 'unblinking look' at their subjects - which might, of course, mean that her eyes are permanently open or permanently closed... the result is a work so bad that Britons cannot realise how fortunate they are in being unable to buy it. The great mistake with this book is not that it has been published in Britain, but that it has actually been published anywhere else.” WritingLooksMeanHas BeensBookMightEyeCoursesLanguageResultsMistakeSubjectsMethodFortunateBritainRealisingFrankHer EyesBiographiesNancyGreat MistakesKittiesBritons Author:David Cannadine