Quotes About Creativity

When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club - I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office.

I'm often asked for advice on how to go about making comedy shows like the begrudgingly accepted 'IT Crowd'.

I read anything and everything. Comfort food for my brain is fantasy fiction or science fiction.

I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.

I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates 'me' from my work in a way that I find comforting.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

Nobody knows the life of the working comic.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets.

There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.

The most labor-intensive part of putting together a comic is the drawing.

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

The comic book world is a tough business.

I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.

All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.

I grew up raiding my brother's comic book stash. I tried to lose myself in fiction.

There's something about the comic book genre that I think is so cool and artsy and unique. It's not like anything else.

I still feel it's kind of weird to say, 'I'm a comic book writer.'

I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.

I'm not ashamed of comic books. You have some people that are like, 'We're trying to elevate comic books.' Comic books have always told great dramatic stories.