105 Quotes by Stephan Pastis

Thomas, my 15-year-old, is effectively my editor, I've always trusted his voice, more than anybody, on the strip for years. He has one of those ears that's just tuned to the rhythm of humor, so if he says something's not funny, my stomach just hurts because I know he's right, and it's already been drawn.

When you do anything creative, you really have to live entirely in that world. I think my ability to do that is what makes me such a bad dinner guest. I'm always looking over someone's shoulder, taking in stuff around the room, immersed in the world of whatever I'm writing about, and keeping the characters completely in my head.

The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can make a piece of art as big as you want and whatever shape you want.

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

This is every creative person's dream - a hobby that I'm lucky enough to get paid for.

It was really just a product of hating being a lawyer so much, ... What can I do to get out of doing what I'm doing now?

I want to shake things up like Bloom County did, ... When I was a kid I loved Calvin and I loved Far Side and I loved Bloom County. And I loved them because they took risks. You never knew what you were going to see that day. And there's not a lot of strips that do that now.

I want to shake things up like 'Bloom County' did.

I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.