144 Quotes by Daniel Clowes

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

That’s been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence over everything else, and that I give them everything I can to make them exist as actual people.

When you see somebody who’s got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they’re constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into – constantly horrified by the things people do.

At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid – I could make it work. That’s opened me up to being able to be much more comfortable telling any kind of story.

For a moment, all movement ceases and the scene is one of crystalline stillness, silent except for a slow, melodramatic heartbeat.

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I’m working.

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

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

I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to – like disco.