Brad Meltzer Quotes

In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.

Stan Lee is like the universal hero. He got every culture together by storytelling. He gave every community their own hero to follow, in fiction and actually in factual life.

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.'

Blank paper has always inspired me.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

An empty canvas is full.

Kids are our future.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

I live for the blank page.

The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk to people and visit interesting places, and don't forget to ask questions. To be a writer you need to drink in the world around you so it's always there in your head.

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.