"What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has."

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"What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has."

Len Wein, American Cartoonist

Effect,

"Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me."

Leo Szilard, American Scientist

Effect, Experts

"I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

Effect, Importance, Man, Woman

"Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

Effect,

"For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established."

Wilhelm Ostwald, German Scientist

Effect, Order, Water

"In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect."

Andrew Coyle Bradley, American Judge

Effect, First, Play, Thinking

"Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment."

Arvid Carlsson, Swedish Scientist

Effect, Treatment

"Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record."

Archibald Philip Primrose, British Prime Minister

Effect, Photography

"With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem."

Thomas Harrison, American Historian

Effect, Investigation, Question, Reading

"I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years."

Marvin Minsky, American Scientist

Effect, Realism, Years

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"I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked."

Age

"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."

Past

"Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could."

God

"I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point."

Hate

"The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil."

Character

"You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end."

Beginning

"In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you."

Work

"It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision."

Food

"What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has."

Effect

"When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine."

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