C.L. Grant Quotes

I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life.

Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.

From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.

Who needs girls when you've got comics?

I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I.

It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing me to continue writing 10 or 12 hours a day.

Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.

I won't tell you again! Don't look back! In hell you never look back!

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it.

This is the end of our sentence

I’m a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! - Gideon Stargrave

The first light had cast the first shadow.

It’s mostly just you have to convince yourself that there’s nothing else in the room but John Lennon and suddenly things start John Lennon-ing!

There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.

I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.

I think any writer coming on to Batman should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.

The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.

I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week.

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

I don't like to think of my readership as "fans," a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.

All I know is that you won't come back until they're all dead. 'Eternity.' Every last one of them. Every man. Every woman. Every child. Global massacre. I dream about that day. A planet of corpses

And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. "Just fo feel. Just to feel something.

Einstein was wrong! I"M the speed of like CRACKING through shivery rainbows and GOD the sky whirls and withers like a melting RAINBOW!

I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read.

My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.

The big problem is time. I don't have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.

The photograph is always more interesting than what the photograph is of.

On some level, I think everyone felt like a dork in high school.

I went to Samuel Ayer High School, which is now Milpitas High Schoo.

Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. Its really fun to watch that.

When the BCS started, a decision was made collectively, as coaches, that the BCS champion would receive our championship and our trophy. It's as simple as that.

First be best, then be first.

Success begets more in television.

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

I'm always keen to head to where the greatest gravitation pull is tugging me.

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

It's not an insult to have a past and to have some accountability to it.

I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.

In times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone and with our families.

I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings.

No matter in what land we may dwell the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ makes us brothers and sisters, interested in each other, eager to understand and know each other.

I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples.

I love in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are. My mother has trouble remembering my name.

I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.

I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.