Quotes About Creativity

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 had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

I played Dungeons & Dragons and have read comic books since I was a kid.

I think comic books have come an incredibly far way, and I want to make sure we don't take a step back. I certainly don't want my name on a movie that would take it back.

Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.

I came to comic books when I was about 15.

If I do foray more into writing comic books, I definitely would hope that my acceptance is based more on my ability to write than my ability to schmooze my way in as a celebrity.

Cartoons only showed you certain things. The comic books go in deep.

That was always my dream as a kid: to draw comic books.

My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels.

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.

Anyone should be able to read comics.

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

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's.

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.

I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old.

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 grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.