Jeff Lemire Quotes

When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/11. I've been writing and illustrating stories in the world post-9/11 since then, watching the world change around me.

Jeff Lemire

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: March 21, 1976

Topics

ChangeMeWritingWorldSeriously

I would leave school every day and walk to my grandparents' house under the El because everyone worked. I was 6 and walking home alone from school. It was a different city and a different time.

Joe Lhota

HomeAloneTimeWalkDaySchool

When suffering from TBI and PTSD, it's difficult to find the motivation to seek help. I want society not to forget those that served this country.

Max Martini

SufferingSocietyMotivationHelp

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

Max Brooks

TeenMeWritingStoryMoviesThan

It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.

Michael Bergin

PowerMeHellTrueWhateverStar

I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that this is a voice I want to listen to for a good long while. It has much to do with imagery and language, a particular perspective, the assured knowledge of the particular universe the writer has created.

Amy Tan

GoodKnowledgePerspectiveReading

A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I don't know what they think.

Stephan Pastis

PeopleMeThinkFeedbackHideKnow

May 8th 1943. Deluge. The rain not only fell mainly on the plain in Spain; it also fell mainly on the back of the bloody neck, dripping down the spine into the socks where it came out of the lace-holes in the boots.

Spike Milligan

RainBootsBackDownSocksOut

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

Roone Arledge

FutureWisdomPeopleThinkBe True

There's something about most phobias where there's a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.

Roz Chast

ThinkYouHappenCornerSomething

I'm an excellent dancer. I keep up with whatever's hot. I've been break-dancing and pop-locking since back in the day.

Michael Strahan

DayBackHotWhateverUpBeen

You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense.

Chris Hemsworth

WorkCharacterWorldYouIndependent

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

Claire Forlani

LiveParentsNowYearsBritishFour

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