Quotes by Chuck Wendig

“Were here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.”

“We think the future is robots and hovercars and maybe its really here.”

“Leadership can mean defiance.”

“Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue.”

“All hail the light, the dark, and the grey.”

“He's heard tales of the Clone Wars -tales spoken by his own father. He knows how war goes. It's not many wars, but just one, drawn out again and again, cut up into slices so it seems more manageable.”

“Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.”

“All under the pretense of military application.He pouts. No pretense about it. Remember, the Internet was a military application. And now look at how its changed our culture.”

“You cant be friends with a droid.”

“Vampires are slicker than goose shit on a glass window.”

“Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story”

“Here are the two states in which you may exist: person who writes, or person who does not. If you write: you are a writer. If you do not write: you are not. Aspiring is a meaningless null state tha...”

“Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.”

“A HUG IS LIKE VIOLENCE MADE OF LOVE.”

“Personal opinion time: some of the bravest, strangest, coolest stories right now are being told in the young adult space. It's stuff that doesn't fly by tropes or adhere to rules -- appropriate, pe...”

“She gets on her tippy-toes and kisses him. Long, slow, deep. The kind of kiss where you can feel little pieces of your soul trading places as mouths open and breath mingles.”

“The writer is editor, marketer, blogger, reader, thinker, designer, publisher, public speaker, budget-maker, contract reader, trouble-shooter, coffee-hound, liver-pickler, shame-farmer, god, devil,...”

“Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.”

“Youre a raptor who sees all his people as defenseless little flit-wrensand youll save them, if only they give up the fanciful notion that they can lead themselves, that they can protect themselves....”

“It starts with my mother.Boys get fucked up by their fathers, right? Thats why so many tales are really Daddy Issue stories at their core, because men run the world, and men get to tell their stori...”