“One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.” KnowsHas BeensBookWarMightThreeCoursesEconomyFourWrittenMastersHeroPagesSupremeDataMight Have BeenMy HeroBorges Author:Peter Greenaway
“I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books about young people who are left on their own with the world, and the four children's books I've written feature that very thing: children that are abandoned by their families or running away from their families or ignored by their families and having to grow up quicker than they should, like David Copperfield - having to be the hero of their own story.” PeopleWorldShouldChildrenBookStoriesRunningYoungReadingLeftGrowsGrowing UpFourWrittenHeroOur ChildrenFeaturesAbandonedRunning AwayIgnoredOrphanChildren's BooksDickens Author:John Boyne
“My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.” MenBookAmericaFourHeroBasesComicFantasticCaptainsComic BookSpidersMy HeroSpider ManMarvel ComicsFantastic Four Author:Walter Mosley
“Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States--first,murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.” IfsFirstsKindBookStatesStoriesLosesUnitedUnited StatesNovelFourHeroOvercomingMurderVolumePublishersHeroinesSpiritualism Book:Mencken Chrestomathy Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan the Barbarian and Oliver North, who would look very terrifying except that they are three feet tall and facing in random directions. They stand there silently for several seconds before an adult voice hisses from the darkness behind them: "Say 'Trick or treat!” LooksThreeVoiceBehindsDarknessFourDoorsFeetHeroAdultsTreatsTricksTallSecondsImaginaryHalloweenBarbariansConanTrick Or Treat Book:The World According to Dave Barry Source: The World According to Dave Barry
“I felt hopeful for the future because Obama is here. But nothing has changed. It's time for young kids to get serious again and really think about what their four fathers were like. As African-Americans, we are resilient, we are some bad mf-ers, and we are survivors. So get those i-pods out of their ears and become heroes again like the Freedom Riders.” ThinkingKidsYoungFatherFeltFourChangedSeriousHeroEarsAfrican AmericanHopefulSurvivorRidersResilientThings Have Changed Author:Lee Daniels
“Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.” HoursSimpleFourFansHeroTwentiesSticksTongue Author:Gene Simmons