Ted Naifeh quotes

“Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the readers attention.”
-- Ted Naifeh

Source : "Ted Naifeh Talks Courtney Crumrin & the Prince of Nowhere". Interview with Chris Arrant, www.newsarama.com. October 23, 2008.

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“A story really isnt truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.”
-- Ted Naifeh

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“I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.”
-- Ted Naifeh

Source : "Ted Naifeh Brings COURTNEY CRUMRIN To Color, Ongoing Book". Interview with Lan Pitts, www.newsarama.com. January 18, 2012.

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“Theres something about girls and unicorns thats deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.”
-- Ted Naifeh

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“I think theres too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.”
-- Ted Naifeh

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“I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.”
-- Ted Naifeh

Source : "Ted Naifeh Talks Courtney Crumrin & the Prince of Nowhere". Interview with Lan Pitts, www.newsarama.com. October 23, 2008.

#Roots Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Stories Quotes

“A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.”
-- Ted Naifeh

Source : "Ted Naifeh Brings COURTNEY CRUMRIN To Color, Ongoing Book". Interview with Lan Pitts, www.newsarama.com. January 18, 2012.

#Stories Quotes #Conclusion Quotes #Climax Quotes

“Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.”

“But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.”

“Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.”

Source : "The Doctrine of Chances: Or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play".

“As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.”

“The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.”

“Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.”

“If I’d known Ashton wanted my attention at any point I would have pushed Nicole aside and given her my undivided attention. But most of the time she was wrapped in Sawyer’s arms and I needed the distraction Nicole provided.”

“It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics,”

Source : Adam Foulds (2009). “The Quickening Maze”, p.17, Random House

“The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.”

“I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.”