I wondered, reading about the college discussions, whether, one day, people would put a trigger warning on my fiction. I wondered whether or not they would be justified in doing it. And then I decided to do it first. – Neil Gaiman
The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to. – John Cleese
Hey! Yeah, you! I’m down here, busting my ***, while you sit on yours watching me jump around? How is that fair? –
Deadpool
Plenty of masterpieces are just one cliché after another, Mozart for example, but that’s quite natural, because if you think about it, two clichés that have met one another can beget the most original and profound effect. – Thomas Ades
Never trust a man with two first names, especially if one of them’s a woman’s. – Joel Hodgson, Mystery Science Theater 3000
You can make anything by writing. – C.S. Lewis
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. – Brandon Sanderson
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. – Mason Cooley
Consolation from imaginary things is not imaginary consolation. – Roger Scruton
The act of choosing – the stories we tell versus the stories we leave out – will reverberate across the rest of your life. – Lin-Manuel Miranda
As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one’s character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response – the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy. – Norman Lock
