144 Quotes by Daniel Clowes

Comic characters have to have some kind of life breathed into them, and I'm never exactly sure how that's done, but you can tell when it works and when it doesn't. There's nothing worse than looking at a comic when somebody doesn't have that. It's like looking at store windows or something.

Why aren’t you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?

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

I’m a fan of parchment and wood pulp.

I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn’t satisfying, but to actually draw our own world – it’s like controlling your own dreams.

I’m more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

He always accuses me of trying to look’cool’, I was like, ’everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.

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.

I’m always hiding the books in my closet, and my art’s always turned upside down in my drawer.