Jeff Lemire Quotes

I can't really write anything without knowing the ending. I don't know how people do that. Even with my superhero stuff, I have to know at least where I want to take the characters and what the ending of my story with them will be. I just can't structure stories or character arcs and stuff without knowing the endpoint.

Jeff Lemire

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: March 21, 1976

Topics

CharacterPeopleEndingStoryKnow

My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.

Jennifer Gilmore

PastMeResearchStoryFindWay

The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.

John Owen

GodMenWorldJudgmentHeartsMost

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

Robert Smithson

ArtDayI AmRepresentationExist

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

Spalding Gray

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When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.

Slick Rick

PeopleAlwaysTellLittleUsedLike

There's a bit more of a safe distance when you're making a narrative movie, a bit more perspective. Audiences can separate themselves from the harsh reality of the facts a little bit more and think: 'Okay, how do I consider this?'

Tom McCarthy

PerspectiveThinkFactsRealityYou

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Tony Robbins

LifeLearningSuccessPainControl

A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.

Ron Jaworski

RulesWillMoreMovementBoxOut

Everyone deserves compassion.

Michael Sheen

CompassionEveryoneDeserves

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

Joyce Carol Oates

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Denis Waitley

LifeWomanManPurposeYourselfYou

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

Christine Baranski

ActingHighActErrorLikeYour

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