Bill Willingham Quotes & Sayings

Reluctantly he realized some forces could not be conquered and some vengeances can never be sated. — Bill Willingham

What can I say your honor? Life is neither fair nor easy. — Bill Willingham

Hope without direction can all too easily turn into despair. — Bill Willingham

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

The turtle stands on a turtle, which stands on a turtle. That's the universe in whole, boy. It's turtles all the way down. — Bill Willingham

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

Sometimes impossible things are entirely possible, if there's magic enough in the world. — Bill Willingham

Hope has power only when married to personal action. — Bill Willingham

Acquiring true wisdom is always a greater burden than transient pain. — Bill Willingham

We have to harden our hearts and think of the greater good."
"The plan is, our exposure to her is supposed to purify us. But it seems more like her exposure to us is diminishing her. — Bill Willingham

While he lived, entire worlds weren't enough to contain him. Now six good feet of earth are sufficient. — Bill Willingham

It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages. — Bill Willingham

He's every adventure I ever want to be on — 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

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

Who can gauge all the ways in which the Gods who've created you craft your life? — Bill Willingham

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

Mr Cricket: So what are you going to do?
Rose Red: Fight like a motherfucker, of course. Fight like I've got a chance. Hell if I'm just going to roll over and show throat. — Bill Willingham

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

I give you real world-changers like Homer, Jack Kirby, and the aforementioned Shakespeare as the archangels of pure story. — 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

No thanks. This is a lovely dream, but it's a child's dream. I know some who'd argue the point, but I grew up long ago. - Rose Red (Fables: Vol.21, Happily Ever After) — Bill Willingham

I'm here because all fairy tales take place in the woods, King Cole, even those that don't. — Bill Willingham

Every road and every step along it begins with a story. — Bill Willingham

Different rules apply to those who shake the worlds. — Bill Willingham

But sometimes a giant heart can live in a tiny body. — Bill Willingham

Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred — Bill Willingham

It's a tough thing having to step aside for a friend, when your heart's breaking and your nether parts are still tangled up in their base desires. — Bill Willingham

One thing I have finally gotten through my thick skull: Anyone looking for love is also looking for trouble. — Bill Willingham

Yes, and our kid brother Superhero has died so many times that the readers barely even notice anymore. — Bill Willingham

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

Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done. — Bill Willingham

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

Isn't there a statute of limitation on playing the poor abused victim? — Bill Willingham

One of the advantages of
of this
is that dying men are allowed complete and brutal candor. — Bill Willingham

Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do. — Bill Willingham

The fact that I let you back into my bed is the proof that I've hit rock bottom. — Bill Willingham

Baba Yaga: I've never heard of such a creature. What are his powers?
Magic Mirror: He reads. He reads everything. — Bill Willingham

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

Writers never really like each other anyway. Our insecurities get in the way. — Bill Willingham

Oh, don't mind Humpty. He's inhaled a hell of a lot of super-glue. — Bill Willingham

Nothing like a good war to forget a night of exquisite soul-killing humiliation. — Bill Willingham

We tell stories to live, to love, to prosper and to fail. — Bill Willingham