Quotes By Daniel Clowes

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.

I don't read much of anything online.

I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.