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  • July 22nd, 2013 4:29pm

    Lois is the second biggest character in the story, or maybe third behind the antagonist. Lois doesn’t just have a role, she has a crucial role in being an investigative reporter. Just as a tease, at the end of Unchained #2, for example, you see Lois is going down in a plane. The common wisdom and expectation is that Superman is going to come save her. But I want to do a Lois story where she is bad-ass and saves everybody else.

    I promise when you open up #3, you’ll see there’s a lot of fun Lois stuff that starts there, where she is smarter than everybody around her. All I can say is, I really have no bones about saying to you: this is a huge Lois Lane story. I wouldn’t say that to you if it wasn’t. She has a crucial role in it that is much more than any tiny supporting role. She doesn’t need to be saved. She is the key to unraveling the mystery of Wraith, of Ascension, of everything.

    He couldn’t do it without her. I promise you, a lot of Lois and important Lois, and I love writing her.

    — Scott Snyder (via fyeahsupermanandloislane)

  • July 15th, 2013 9:36pm

    Mad was the last kid I saw and he was asleep. He was 3 months old and they put him in my arms and he stayed asleep and they put him in the bath and he stayed asleep and I thought he was narcoleptic or something. Then he opened his eyes and just stared at me for the longest time and I just stared at him and I started crying and he smiled. And it wasn’t that he smiled that he liked me, it was just that I hadn’t held children in my life and I was always considered so dark and I always had so many things that made me feel like maybe I shouldn’t be somebody’s mom because certainly the world has an opinion of me and I’m not so sure about myself and am I gonna be the best mom? So the fact that this little kid seemed at ease gave me the courage to feel like I could make him happy. And so we became a family right then.

    —  Angelina Jolie

  • July 15th, 2013 9:23pm

    Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it’s the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

    — Sir Ken Robinson

  • July 9th, 2013 10:50pm

    Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring–not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive… If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.

    — Carl Sagan

  • June 30th, 2013 12:44pm

    Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened. In other words, we would not consciously engage upon tasks whose success clearly requires that creativity be forthcoming. Hence, the only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine, simple, undemanding of genuine creativity than it will turn out to be.

    — Albert O. Hirschman and the power of failure –  from Malcolm Gladwell’s piece in the New Yorker.  (via booksandpublishing)

  • June 23rd, 2013 12:27pm

    1. Don’t think that being published will make you happy. It will for four weeks, if you are lucky. Then it’s the same old fucking shit.

    2. Hemingway was fucking wrong. You shouldn’t write drunk. (See my third novel for details.)

    3. Hemingway was also right. ‘The first draft of everything is shit.’

    4. Never ask a publisher or agent what they are looking for. The best ones, if they are honest, don’t have a fucking clue, because the best books are the ones that seemingly come from nowhere.

    5. In five years time the semi-colon is going to be nothing more than a fucking wink.

    6. In five years time every fucking person on Twitter will be a writer.

    7. Ignore the fucking snobs. Write that space zombie sex opera. Just give it some fucking soul.

    8. If it’s not worth fucking reading, it’s not worth fucking writing. If it doesn’t make people laugh or cry or blow their fucking minds then why bother?

    9. Don’t be the next Stephen King or the next Zadie Smith or the next Neil Gaiman or the next Jonathan Safran fucking Foer. Be the next fucking you.

    10. Stories are fucking easy. PLOT OF EVERY BOOK EVER: Someone is looking for something. COMMERCIAL VERSION: They find it. LITERARY VERSION: They don’t find it. (That’s fucking it.)

    11. No-one knows anything. Especially fucking me. Except:

    12. Don’t kill off the fucking dog.

    13. Oh, yeah, and lastly: write whatever you fucking want.

    — Matt Haig, “Some Fucking Writing Tips” (via booksandpublishing)

  • June 19th, 2013 10:42pm

    A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.

    — From over a century ago – French writer, François-René de Chateaubriand  (via childsmindinnovation)

  • June 19th, 2013 10:29pm

    I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something wrong with you.

    — Stephen King (via fearandhope)