Quotes from Ryan North

It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full.

Librarians are awesome; I don't care who knows it.

I read all these Marvel wikis, and there are characters that just stand out to you, and you think, 'How is this character not being used? This is crazy.'

The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to explore the characters and figure out their different fates.

Squirrel Girl is basically a Silver Age character in the modern age, and that makes her a fish out of water in a lot of ways. She likes being a superhero. She likes fighting crime. She doesn't sit around brooding in the darkness of her Squirrel Hole trying to figure out new ways to make crime pay.

Sometimes I feel like I must be hinting at this deep well of knowledge when, really, I just skim off the surface.

The first mp3 I downloaded, which I guess was illegal, was a symphonic rendering of the Super Mario Brothers 1-1 theme song. It was great. I was like, 'This is blowing MIDI files out of the water. This is the future, right here.'

I'd hate to be writing 'Adventure Time' comics and not be excited about it.

For me personally, I get to be a cartoonist, because my comic would never survive in print. Maybe one in 100 people would like it, but online, I can gather that one percent all in one place.

I've said this before, but I think one of the reason so many of the cartoonists I know have become friends is because the Internet is a much more cooperative space.

You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone's going to be into what you're doing.

Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics.

Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.

In earlier comics, my only priority was telling a joke in the last panel, but now I try to make every panel as interesting as possible, and that normally means at least a li'l joke there.

Yes, I've won prizes for putting words on a computer.

Writing 'Jughead' in general is a pleasure because - and I think a lot of very tall guys can agree with me on this - there was a time in my teenage years where I just ate all the time and never got full.

'Adventure Time' tells stories where anything can happen, but what happens is. It stars Finn, a boy who fights evil, and Jake, a dog with stretchy powers. Both of them can talk.

Failure is just success rounded down.

You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea.

Failure is just success rounded down, my friend!

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition there. —You (also, Indira Gandhi)

You can't live the life you want, and you can't earn the death you think you deserve.

Boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew

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