Mark Waid Quotes

People talk in ungrammatical, unwriterly ways.

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room together, I know where their muscles need to be.

Study words so that you can use them significantly, effectively, worthily.

To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What is required, we are told, is plays and films. Books are out of date! The book is dead, long live television! One question which is not even raised let alone considered is: Who will write the drama and film scripts when the generation that can read and write has been used up?

It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.

I definitely think of myself still as a writer first, and feel like - with the lucky exception of this - any acting opportunity I've gotten is usually because I was writing on it. This is like a wonderful vacation. If you've ever sat in a writers' room it's the most disgusting, tortuous place, so it's a treat to be treated like a movie actor.

From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs.

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.

Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.

We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.

I don't want to take all the time. I just want to do what you wrote and let me go from there. I don't want to miss something. You know, I'm not really a writer per se, but I can write. But I can't put a script together like they can.

I'm from rural Oregon, Yamhill County, a farm four miles out of a town of 1,000 people and that town is overwhelmingly pro-Trump.

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else

We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.

To boldly split infinitives that no man had split before.