Chris Ware Quotes

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

Chris Ware

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 28, 1967

Topics

MyselfStoryThinkPicturesWrite

Astronomers can look back in time. We can look at things as they used to be. We have an idea there was a Big Bang explosion 13.7 billion years ago. We have a story of how galaxies and stars were made. It's an amazing story.

John C. Mather

StarsTimeAmazingStoryLookBack

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

John C. Maxwell

LearningGrowthWalkLimitsDown

Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.

Jennifer Weiner

CharacterPeopleWritingVoiceYou

I've been reluctant in doing press stuff - even my Instagram isn't properly managed; I manage it myself. It's kind of by design. I knew that would be what people see first.

John David Washington

MyselfPeopleDesignDoingKindSee

We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.

Jeff Tweedy

BeginningWorldFreeInternetBecome

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

Steven Saylor

GoodIdeasGood And EvilEvilHopes

I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.

Tom Waits

WrongThingsIllusionsAudioHear

I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn't, at least it isn't any worse.

Rod McKuen

DayTomorrowPeopleBad DayBetter

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

Dick Gregory

GreatMeSeeingWatchingPoetLike

I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

LifeMy LifeCareerAlwaysSteady

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

Chuck Jones

ChildrenGreatBookChanceTest

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that.

Sharon Stone

FatherMotherGreatMeEasyPerson

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