Marjane Satrapi Quotes

The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.

I've turned into a technological wizard. I can send emails now, which for me is unbelievable. They don't make any sense, but I can send them. I call it e-mithering.

I don't know what an email is.

Technology must remain a tool. It's a great tool, but technology is the pen to write the book. It's not the book. If you have a great pen, maybe you'll write faster or it will look better, but at the end, you have something to say, or you don't.

When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.

Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

I communicate with my commissioners quite often. Rather than call them and not know if they are going to be there at that time, I can just sit down and bang out a couple of sentences, send it off, and I'll have the answer within a matter of minutes if they are around, or in hours if they are not.

I had to ask my grandchildren, 'What does it mean? I threw shade?'

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

I think writing is a glorious and noble thing.

We're all confused and have problems and struggles.

I love technology. I love trying to tell stories in new ways using technology.

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

Technology remains a tool: you can have the best tool in the world, but if you have nothing to say, it will remain an empty experience.

Email cannot die in the near future because of its universal acceptance.

Some people read. I like to put words together.

As the 19th century teetered into the 20th, the clank of typewriter keys went from solo to symphony. They were the weapon of choice for professional writers, the business elite, people with things to say and the need to say them quickly.

A leader who is confused or confusing causes too much anxiety, and a leader who is too controlling is revealing more insecurity and a lack of leadership.

Of course you have an e-mail, you idiot, just read it!

You can't fill your emails with crap, at least not with my friends, because they're brutal. If something sucks, they'll tell you.

Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the edge. We all are on the brink, and it takes a lot of nerve, a lot of energy, to teeter on the edge, looking over, looking down into the windy blackness and not being quite able to make out, through the yellow, stinking mist, just what lies below in the slime, in the oozing, vomit-streaked slime; and so I could go on, my thoughts, writing much, trying to find the core, the meaning for myself.

Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?

Whatever I write in email, it doesn't mean anything. It is just words I write.

You gave me a significant look, but significant of what?