Quotes from Daniel Clowes

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean.

I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

I don't read much of anything online.

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.

You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.

I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.

I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.

I believe in the transformative power of cinema. It is only through this shared dream-experience that we can transcend the oppressive minutiae of daily existence and find some spiritual connection in the deeper reality of our mutual desire.

The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean...