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" Everything I write should have lasers. That's my #1 rule. "
Ryan North
Everything
Should
I Write
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" Librarians are awesome; I don't care who knows it. "
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Knows
" I thought there was something inherently interesting in people turning to gold. It's pretty cool. "
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Thought
Interesting
Gold
" The idea of taking command of your life and doing something that you're not sure if you can do and you're not really sure if you should do it, I think is pretty timeless. We all face those doubts often, if not constantly. "
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Pretty
You
Think
" Yes, I've won prizes for putting words on a computer. "
Ryan North
Computer
Words
Won
" As all C.S. students know, first year is super easy, but second year is when things get harder. At least that's how it was in my experience. And I didn't have to save the planet between classes either. Instead, I went home and studied quietly. I was a party animal. "
Ryan North
Know
Experience
Animal
" No offense to real jobs, but comics seemed a lot more fun. "
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Lot
Real
Offense
" I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case it was the last. But then I talked to other cartoonists, and I realized ideas are cheap; you can have a million ideas. The tricky part is the follow-through: making good ones work, making the best out of the raw material! "
Ryan North
Work
Worry
You
" It's a lot harder for an author that's unpublished to say, 'Hey, here's a new book.' There's nothing of theirs to read, so you don't know what it's going to be like. Kickstarter is great, but you also have to put your work out there whenever you can so you can build a reputation. "
Ryan North
Work
Reputation
You
" I love the idea that if you're going to travel through time, you do it in this insanely dangerous car travelling at 88 miles per hour. "
Ryan North
You
Travel
Time
" The challenge is to stay true to the characters while also having them be entertaining every day, because it turns out that just watching someone be true to themselves isn't that rad to watch. "
Ryan North
True
Challenge
Be True
" The great thing about online comics is that this happens naturally, even if you don't advertise. "
Ryan North
You
Great
Online
" There's a difference between children's literature and all-ages literature. One is written expressly for children. The other is written for everyone, including children. And the difference usually manifests in not talking down to kids. "
Ryan North
Children
Talking
Literature
" The first mp3 I downloaded, which I guess was illegal, was a symphonic rendering of the Super Mario Brothers 1-1 theme song. It was great. I was like, 'This is blowing MIDI files out of the water. This is the future, right here.' "
Ryan North
Right
Song
Theme
" The funny thing with Ophelia is that I remembered her being this really cool, awesome female character when I read 'Hamlet' in high school, and when I went back and read it, no, she's not. "
Ryan North
Funny
Cool
Character
" I read all these Marvel wikis, and there are characters that just stand out to you, and you think, 'How is this character not being used? This is crazy.' "
Ryan North
Think
Character
Crazy
" 'Adventure Time' tells stories where anything can happen, but what happens is. It stars Finn, a boy who fights evil, and Jake, a dog with stretchy powers. Both of them can talk. "
Ryan North
Stars
Time
Evil
" It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningful way. "
Ryan North
Learn
Jazz
Way
" I do actually do good work! And it's hard! And I'm worth it! "
Ryan North
Work
Worth It
Worth
" There may be this hidden, hate-filled community of online cartoonists, but if there are, I haven't found it yet. We're all generally pretty nice people, it turns out! "
Ryan North
Community
Hidden
Nice
" You can always take on more projects; it just makes your life worse and worse. "
Ryan North
Your
Always
Just
" You can do so much crazy stuff with books that isn't necessarily being done. That's how culture stays alive - by doing new things with it. "
Ryan North
Crazy
New Things
Doing
" This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool. "
Ryan North
Talk
Hard
Awards
" If you're going to be adapting something across media, you should at least have the moves that people want you to hit and that you want to hit. "
Ryan North
Hit
People
Want
" You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea. "
Ryan North
Still
Dumb
Everyone
" As a kid, I loved the idea of alternate possibilities, roads not taken, that sort of thing - and I think seeing the 'Adventure Time' universe rendered by the artists in those stories will scratch that same itch really well. "
Ryan North
Think
Roads
Loved
" I actually put Jubilee in 'Squirrel Girl.' I made it a priority. "
Ryan North
Made
Girl
Priority
" It's good to have hobbies. "
Ryan North
Good
Hobbies
" A shot-down advance doesn't have to mean the end of a relationship, right? You can still be friends, as long as you're not dumb about it. "
Ryan North
End
You
Relationship
" Writing 'Jughead' in general is a pleasure because - and I think a lot of very tall guys can agree with me on this - there was a time in my teenage years where I just ate all the time and never got full. "
Ryan North
Think
Me
Never
" You always hope a book's going to be a success. I don't think I've ever written a book thinking, 'This will be bad and no-one will like it!' "
Ryan North
Thinking
Think
Success