Telgemeier Raina Quotes & Sayings

Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages. — Raina Telgemeier

Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references. — Raina Telgemeier

I would love to take off the stilettos and put the boots back on. Strap something to my hip, and let's go! — Gina Torres

drama is a good book — Raina Telgemeier

I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among 'The Baby-Sitters Club' characters. I was shy, but I was also kind of a tomboy, and I was really good at sticking my foot in my mouth even though I was shy. — Raina Telgemeier

My girl, the brunette, has an unbelievable ass that you read about. — Pauly D

You are worthy because you were born. — Oprah Winfrey

As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance - an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love - then external lack is bound to be temporary. — Marianne Williamson

All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension. — Raina Telgemeier

Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile. — Raina Telgemeier

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease. — Jean O'Leary

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end. — Raina Telgemeier

New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave. — Raina Telgemeier

When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off!' — Raina Telgemeier

I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life. — Raina Telgemeier

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent. — Alejo Carpentier

Errors in code are what programmers call bugs, though when our programs go wrong, we prefer to call them "unexpected additional features." Very — Paul Wilton

It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically. — Maira Kalman

I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing! — Raina Telgemeier

I know how long it takes me to draw a page, how long it takes me to complete a project, how long I can work before my hand gives out, that sort of thing. — Raina Telgemeier

Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life. — Joanne Harris

I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling. — Raina Telgemeier

I've obviously made a very nice amount of money. I have a very nice lifestyle. I get to do what I love. Very few actors get to do that, and even fewer are lucky enough to work steadily for 24 years. — Erika Slezak

When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part! — Raina Telgemeier

Dear God,
Reveal to me through stories something of what it is like to walk around in someone else's shoes.
Show me something about myself in the stories I read, something that needs changing, a thought, a feeling or attitude.
Deliver me from myself, O God, and from the parachial and sometimes prejudiced views I have of other people, other nations, other races, other religions.
Enlarge by heart with a story, and change me by the characters I meet there.
May some of the light from their lives spill over into mine, giving me illumination where there was once ignorance, compassion where there was once contempt. — Ken Gire

I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trends, and I could never style my hair the way everyone else's was - my hair was very thin, so I couldn't do, like, the sprayed bangs everyone else was into. — Raina Telgemeier