“To the aspiring writer who has always wanted to give it a try. I would just strongly encourage you to try it. Right. It’s going to be difficult writing that first chapter. That first paragraph is incredibly difficult. But I think you will find that if you...
“Discipline and commitment are essential to being a writer. You can’t be a writer unless you’re disciplined and you’re committed to the cause, which is like, write the script, write the book, write the sonnet, write the symphony. If...
“I learned a great deal from Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera. I learned from them that cartoons can be as visually amazing as a Bob Clampett cartoon, but they also can be verbally clever, like the best of the Yogis and the Hucks. I really, ultimately, when I was...
“Who am I if I’m not doing this, you know? It’s so much of your personality, it’s more than a profession. It’s like a lifestyle because you sacrifice so much. You put so much in, so you can’t really leave it.” ~ Sören...
“The words that I was saying to myself, whenever I doubted, I would say, ‘Why not me?’ You go into these stores and you see all these New York Times bestsellers and you think, ‘Oh, I can never do that.’ And then I started saying,...
