Scott Snyder Quotes

Sometimes you're just too close to something to see it clearly. To see it for what it really is. It's like you've got your face pressed to it, and all you can see is the small points. The things you want to see.

- If I tell you, will you let met go?
- You bet, partner. [ ... ]
- You promised!
- Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost.

That's what everyone thinks
they think being a cop is about punishing people for doing wrong. But that's not true. You know it isn't. It's about believing in people, believing in the good. In the will of people to do what's right despite their own instincts.

Never have them, Reg. I swear, you're never free. You LOVE them too much. It's like a vital organ walked out of your body and is out there waving hi to people and you fear for it all day, EVERY day, because if something happened to it ...

This building, the tower that was supposed to be the centerpiece of your little Gotham Initiative? Now it'll be your tomb.

- What are those?
- Teeth. Wood.
- But w ...
- I like to bite them back.

How I love the first snow ... unbroken and white, before it's ruined by footprints.

But just know that there is evil in the world. Real evil. You can fight it, or you can hide and pretend it doesn't exist.

I was just so afraid ... So afraid of being seen through, of being caught, that I missed the point. I missed the most important fact of it all, which is quite simply ... they want to believe in you up there ... The audience wants to forget who's under the mask. But they don't want to forget because of obfuscation ... no, they want to forget it's you by virtue of the passion of your performance. They want to be transported ... Transported to a world where bigger truths are at work, and anything
anything
can happen. A world where the impossible is possible. Batman can be someone like that for them, Bruce. Someone who defies every damn rule of logic that governs their lives.

I've always been a relatively big history buff. In college, I took a lot of history courses, and when I was in grad school, I liked to audit them.

Oh, for the love of God, won't the two of you just shut up?

But she also said that by staying strong, you can become the light for those who need you most.

When I get the possibility of using a character like Bruce Wayne or Dick Grayson, I try and think about what's most exciting or interesting about them as a person, so I try and think what they are at their core, or what piece of their psychology do I gravitate toward that I respect, and I'm excited by it when I read books about them.

Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed speak not a whispered word of them or they'll send the Talon for your head.

I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero.

And yes, it all might end at any moment for any of us, in violence or not, but what matters is what we do before that. The lives we lead.

-I was a doctor, remember?
-For plants. I was a nurse. For people.

Control the land and you control those who live on it. Own the land and you own those who live on it.

You're a lunatic in a bird suit. And I was done playing nice a long time ago.

Time is the only constant. For the living it never stops ... For the dead it doesn't matter ... And for the undead? For the undead, time is a joke to be laughed at!

I read THE WICKED + THE DIVINE last night, and no matter how high your expectations are for it, its better.

Just try to keep up.

Get the hell out of my cave.

Enough with the banter, Nightwing. Let's get to work.

I remember when I was in school I had this teacher give me this E.L. Doctorow quote: They asked him how much historical research he does for his books and he said, 'As little as possible.' So I try and adhere to that.

Sometimes, all it takes is a few words to change your life.

Times moves differently down here in the dark. With no sunlight or shadows. No weather at all.
There's no future, no right now. Nothing but your memory to keep you company. But they keep me so angry and weak. I can barely think straight.
How long have I been locked up ... wuuks? months?
I don't even konow how I got to this place. There are times I don't even know who I am anymore.