Quotes About Inspiration

All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.

I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.

I came to comic books when I was about 15.

I think that comic books have appealed to female readers for years.

There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

When I first started doing comedy, I was 42 years old, and I was the brother of one of the most celebrated comics in history who made his name in the game 20 years earlier.

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

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

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.

You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.

That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics!

I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium.

Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty.

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.

Comics are in my blood. It's my strange addiction, and I love it.

I never really read comics. I bought them, and I would draw them.

I love comics. Comics are something I've always wanted to do.

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

Dwayne McDuffie was one of my favorite writers. When I was growing up, he was one of the few African Americans working in American comics.

I knew I really wanted to work in comics in 1979.

I grew up with comics. Whether it be from the East or the West, I devoured them.