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"I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance."
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"If you want to be happy, be."
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Personal Development

"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."
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Personal Development

"If you want to be loved, be lovable."
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Personal Development

"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."
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Personal Development

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."
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"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."
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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
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"The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor."
Publishing

"It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon."
Enthusiasm

"Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000."
Publishing

"Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think."
Creativity

"At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists."
Quality

"We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself."
Books

"I'd love to do something else for Avatar after this."
Love

"The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too."
Books

"The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised."
Publishing

"Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine."
Writing
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