Harvey Pekar Quotes

I Really Don't Have A Lot In Common With The People Who Attend The Comic Con. It's Like Assuming That All People Who Write Prose Are The Same.

It's The Stuff That Happens Right In Front Of Your Face When There's No Routine And Everything Is Unexpected. That's What I Want To Write About.

I've Probably Had My Day In The Sun. I Think I've Influenced A Lot Of Comic Book Writers

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 Doing Research For A Large Comic Book On The Beat Generation Guys - Allen Ginsberg And Jack Kerouac And Those Guys

I Think You Can Do Anything With Comics That You Could Do In Just About Any Art Form.

It Seemed To Me You Could Do Anything In Comics. So I Started Doing My Thing, Which Is Mainly Influenced By Novelists, Stand-up Comedians, That Sort Of Thing

I'm A Guy That Likes To Sit In One Place

I Just Continue To Be Kind Of Disappointed That People Don't Realize That And Try And Diversify The Kind Of Work They Are Doing In Comics.

There Was A Survey Done A Few Years Ago That Affected Me Greatly. It Was Discovered That Intelligent People Either Estimate Their Intelligence Accurately Or Slightly Underestimate Themselves, But Stupid People Overestimate Their Intelligence And By Huge Margins. (and These Were Things Like Straight Up Math Tests, Not Controversial Iq Tests.)

I Wanted To Write Literature That Pushed People Into Their Lives Rather Than Helping People Escape From Them.

Even A Pretty Traditional Comic Book Writer Can Make Valuable Contributions To The Internet.