Richelle Mead Quotes

You want your coach's blessing.

It's always important to have the blessing.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

What you guys want, I'm for.

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

[Addressing Robert Peel, 1788-1850:] The Right Honorable Gentleman's smile is like the silver fittings on a coffin.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

No one wants advice, only corroboration..

I'm very happy that major players are always giving their opinions about my life, my game. I am very thankful for that.

It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.

I think it's legitimate to do satire. If you're going to write a book of satire on Marilyn Monroe or Madonna, you're not going to get their permission, because you're going to make fun of them!

Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this will come out. We certainly hope it comes out fine; blah, blah.' Cartoonists don't go that way. Our job is to stick out our tongues, to show a big raspberry to whatever pompous jerk happens to be mouthing off.

Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

Don't go see the movies, I'm a troll. I think the movie was great, but their biggest mistake was me.

Criticks are like brushers of Noblemens cloaths.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

That's sort of what I wanted to make fun of a little bit with Don Jon. And I think oftentimes, if you're going to talk about a sort of substantial topic like this, the best way to do it is with a sense of humor.