Scott Snyder Quotes

“Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.”

— Scott Snyder

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

— Scott Snyder

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

— Scott Snyder

“I always, always got to be the last man standing.”

— Scott Snyder

“It was thrilling, wasn't it? [ ... ] That moment, that perfect moment you let go of your rigid concepts of what was possible. When there was nothing left to do but step beyond anything you'd learned before ... when you stopped being a poor mimic and became a master of the mind. How did that feel?"
"Empowering.”

— Scott Snyder

“Live bravely in the time you have and smile at the void.”

— Scott Snyder

“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.”

— Scott Snyder

“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.”

— Scott Snyder

“Batman was human. He had no powers. He stood next to Gods and said, I handle my city.”

— Scott Snyder

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.

— Scott Snyder

“People call me old-fashioned. The younger guys on the force, they bust my chops because I don't speak their language. Harvey Bullock, dinosaur ... because, nope, I didn't see that show last night, where they prance around and belt out awful covers and vote each other into the damn ocean or whatnot.”

— Scott Snyder

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

— Scott Snyder

“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.”

— Scott Snyder

“Just try to keep up.”

— Scott Snyder

“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!”

— Scott Snyder

“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 ...”

— Scott Snyder

“God, why are the jerks always the cute ones?”

— Scott Snyder

“But I'm pretty on the inside.”

— Scott Snyder

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.

— Scott Snyder

“It's all up to you, kid. The dinosaurs are dying out. Become a Bird ...”

— Scott Snyder

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

— Scott Snyder

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

— Scott Snyder

“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.”

— Scott Snyder

“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.”

— Scott Snyder

“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.”

— Scott Snyder

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.

— Scott Snyder

“Vampires as creatures have evolved over time as different vampire bloodlines have hit different populations of humans. Every once in a while the blood will make something new and mutate into a new species with different powers, abilities, weakness, physical characteristics, and so on. I don't want to give anything away, but there are whole species and branches that date all the way back to pre-modern times.”

— Scott Snyder

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

— Scott Snyder

On this global stage, Superman is someone that we can all look up to and he's almost kind of ultimately American.

— Scott Snyder