Brian Michael Bendis Quotes

I read, I watch a lot of movies, I'm constantly living, so I'm constantly having more to say.

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'

I'm really passionate about things I enjoy, and I like to be out there doing things, and learning and challenging myself. So it's just more fun that way, just to get out and try and do and learn and meet people and try to do something new.

Part of the reasons I have lived the life I have is because I wanted to have an adventurous life. But my best adventures are more literary than political.

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

I realized that I've always been a storyteller.

Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

I'm a big reader. And I take a lot of pictures, do a lot of writing.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

When I play games, I'll make up little stories for just anything. It's almost the game of making up background stories for people you see on the street. You know what I mean? I wasn't exactly the popular kid in school growing up, so I found myself really observing people, and watching how they interact, and how they react to things.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.