37 Quotes by Ursula Vernon

It’s a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You have less to work with. It’s like trying to build a house-if you have unlimited resources, you’re in much better shape than if you get two bricks, a hammer, and a bent nail.

I don’t always burn my bridges, but when I do, I like there to be no survivors.

Every now and again, a painting will get away from my control and take over. Sometimes it’s a good thing. Sometimes it’s a giant drooling hairy thing with pointy teeth. You know how it is.

I really wish there had been a way to phrase this as ‘A thunder of worms.’ Because I like that phrase. That’s a phrase with soul. Worm thunder on the horizon, all is right with the cosmos...

And now you will ask me about the musicians that played for the jackalope wives. Well, if you can find a place where they’ve been dancing, you might see something like sidewinder tracks in the dust, and more than that I cannot tell you. The desert chews its secrets right down to the bone.

Her arms rippled with muscles. Harriet was impressed. Apparently playing the harp only looked delicate.

You’re brave and not very bright, which is the key to success.

People ought to be a lot quicker to listen to each other and a little slower to listen to something that calls itself a god.

Danny had never been so glad to see the underside of a giant bat monster in his life.