Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.Mark Twain
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.Walt Disney
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.Walt Disney
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.Walt Disney
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.Walt Disney
You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.Ernest Hemingway
A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.Ernest Hemingway
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway