Bill Willingham > Quotes

“I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?”
― Bill Willingham

“Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland

“Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 16: Super Team

“It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers

“Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 18: Cubs in Toyland

“The only easy day was yesterday.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile

“Baba Yaga: "... What are his powers"
Mirror on the wall: "He reads”
― Bill Willingham

“I love you, Snow, and have since the hour we first met. Hell, I wanted you even before then. Since before we existed. As if every movement of every star and planet, every tick of creation's clock occurred only so that we could someday find each other.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 8: Wolves

“But sometimes a giant heart can live in a tiny body.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall

“Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 18: Cubs in Toyland

“Reluctantly he realized some forces could not be conquered and some vengeances can never be sated.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall

“ Confession time: I doubt I would ever have picked up one of Marjorie’s books, had I not met her in person. The reason is they’re categorized as Romances, which is where they are shelved in bookstores. Though I have no justification for avoiding it, the romance section is an area in bookstores I seldom wander into. Her novels also have traditional-looking romance book covers, which are occasionally a bit off-putting to us mighty manly men.

Then again, who knows? I don’t carry many biases where good storytelling is concerned. I’m willing to find it anywhere, as too many of my friends will attest, when I try to drag them to wonderful movies that they aren’t eager to go to, simply because they fall under the chick-flick rubric. So, in any case, I’m glad I did meet Marjorie Liu in person, because it would have been a shame to miss out on the work of an author this talented due to whatever degree of cultural prejudices I might still possess. I trust you who read this won’t make the same mistake. ”
― Bill Willingham

“We tell stories to live, to love, to prosper and to fail.”
― Bill Willingham

“Hope without direction can all too easily turn into despair.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 20: Camelot

“Baba Yaga: I've never heard of such a creature. What are his powers?
Magic Mirror: He reads. He reads everything.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 14: Witches

“Writers never really like each other anyway. Our insecurities get in the way.”
― Bill Willingham, Happily Ever After

“Perhaps only that revenge is ultimately unsatisfying. It cant make up for the evil done to you, but it can destroy the remaining good in your life.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall

“Every road and every step along it begins with a story.”
― Bill Willingham

“What can I say your honor? Life is neither fair nor easy.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 20: Camelot

“I'm here because all fairy tales take place in the woods, King Cole, even those that don't.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 14: Witches

“Only silly Dorothys arrive in a magical land and want to go home. You don't want to be a silly stinking Dorothy, do you? They're reviled throughout every wondrous land. Did you know the name Dorothy translates as "squandered opportunity"?”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 18: Cubs in Toyland

“If they've managed to bring more firepower than us, we deserve to lose. But we aren't going to lose, because we're the Page sisters and we're librarians.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover

“We live through the belief of children...Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 18: Cubs in Toyland

“Life is a giant, coagulated bowl of suck.”
― Bill Willingham & Matthew Sturges, Jack of Fables, Vol. 1: The (Nearly) Great Escape

“Yes, and our kid brother Superhero has died so many times that the readers barely even notice anymore.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover

“Isn't there a statute of limitation on playing the poor abused victim?”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile

“Oh, don't mind Humpty. He's inhaled a hell of a lot of super-glue.”
― Bill Willingham, Jack of Fables, Vol. 4: Americana

“Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream before we do.”
― Bill Willingham

“He's every adventure I ever want to be on”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 7: Arabian Nights

“Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.”
― Bill Willingham