Darkness just loosens the mask. Sharpens the mind's eye. Makes the color of a remembered pencil, or a tick of waxy red on a cracked plaster wall, as vivid as that taillight a few feet away.


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I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanti...
DAVID HALLBERG
Ballet is incestuous. This world is smaller than small.
DAVID HALLBERG
Having done so many versions, I never felt like an artist in 'Swan Lake.'
DAVID HALLBERG
When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.
DAVID HALLBERG
I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are...
GARTH BROOKS
I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anac...
GARTH STEIN
Our dog, Comet, is a Lab/poodle mix. She's goofy and silly and sweet.
GARTH STEIN
I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and ...
GARTH STEIN
The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read bo...
GARTH STEIN
Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions...
GARTH STEIN
I gotta be honest with you... I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.
GARTH STEIN
In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story a...
GARTH STEIN
All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thin...
GARTH STEIN
If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good bo...
GARTH NIX
With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than youn...
GARTH NIX
I like movies in particular, on video or T.V. I have lots of old favorites, like Danny Kaye in '...
GARTH NIX
Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking ...
GARTH NIX
I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a b...
GARTH NIX
I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nons...
GARTH NIX
In any genre you're working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I ...
GARTH NIX
There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first ...
GARTH NIX
Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content tha...
GARTH NIX
I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very youn...
GARTH NIX
In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.
GARTH NIX
I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and ...
GARTH NIX
I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age'...
GARTH NIX
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music,...
GARTH HUDSON
I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there&#...
GARTH ENNIS
As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready ...
GARTH ENNIS
I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's...
GARTH ENNIS
I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the charact...
GARTH ENNIS
I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of...
GARTH ENNIS
I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can su...
GARTH ENNIS
If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
GARTH ENNIS
It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a ...
GARTH ENNIS
Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the ...
GARTH ENNIS
There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on o...
GARTH ENNIS
Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I re...
GARTH ENNIS
Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.
GARTH ENNIS
With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
GARTH ENNIS
I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with...
GARTH ENNIS
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as a...
GARTH ENNIS
Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want...
GARTH ENNIS
It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly in...
GARTH ENNIS
Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of ...
GARTH ENNIS
You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of missi...
GARTH ENNIS
I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and y...
GARTH ENNIS
I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I ...
GARTH DAVIS
I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how t...
GARTH DAVIS
Most of the available Indian films in Australia are Bollywood. I did not watch them. In my early day...
GARTH DAVIS
There's no doubt that 'Lion' is an audience pleaser. I mean, I went to a lot of research...
GARTH DAVIS
Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
GARTH DAVIS
I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the...
GARTH DAVIS
I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other...
GARTH DAVIS
The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives...
GARTH DAVIS
I definitely storyboard, but I only start once I have cast and location. I like to find the world fi...
GARTH DAVIS
Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.
GARTH DAVIS
I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just mak...
GARTH DAVIS
Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
GARTH BROOKS
Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently wh...
GARTH BROOKS
I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
GARTH BROOKS
I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and g...
GARTH BROOKS
It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become ...
GARTH BROOKS
People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.
GARTH BROOKS
You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
GARTH BROOKS
I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
GARTH BROOKS