Gerard Way Quotes

All great authors are seers.

Alan Moore is a peculiarly unsung triumph of British culture, and Northampton, where he was born in 1953, the son of brewery worker Ernest and printer Sylvia, is where you must go to find him.

As cliche as that sounds, Maya Angelou is one of the best writers I've ever read. She's very wise and to the point.

How wonderful it was to sit on a set with Norman Mailer and get to know him.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

George Martin is an incredible writer.

Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I've read all of his books.

I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing.

Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick fan, but the emotion and humanity that Bradbury brings to his stories and the way he uses sci-fi to get at the human heart is something that's unique and for me incredibly influential.

I see myself as a story teller.

When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.

Carmiel Banasky, a writer like no other, is a talent to watch.

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.

David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary.

Kendrick Lamar is a great, great thinker. He's a tremendous artist.

John Grisham is one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

There is no story unless you've written it.

In my opinion there are two basic questions that any writer tries to answer. "What is?" is the question non-fiction asks. "What if?" is the question fiction asks. That's the question I'm more interested in.

Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is the midwife of understanding. It's very important for me to tell politics like a story, to make it real.

Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

Fiction is the microscope of truth.