139 Quotes by Harvey Pekar

It’s my perspective: gloom and doom.

I don’t write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I’d get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

I’ve probably had my day in the sun. I think I’ve influenced a lot of comic book writers.

Life is about women, gigs, an’ bein’ creative.

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in one place.

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes.

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in.

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.