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Harvey Pekar Quotes

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

Harvey Pekar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 8, 1939 - July 12, 2010

Topics

Me Doing You Anything Started Sort

I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Mother Me Speak Language Result

I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on.

Robert Herjavec

Build Never Company Million Happened

Of course Brexit means that something is wrong in Europe. But Brexit means also that something was wrong in Britain.

Jean-Claude Juncker

Wrong Europe Something Brexit Means

Life can be either of two things: What it makes of you or what you make of it.

Rodney Crowell

Life You Two Things Make Either

I would like to be remembered as the reporter who snuck back stage to all the off-limits shows, be it the Vatican dressing room, the Pentagon war room, or the Celtics locker room. Some curtains ought never to be pulled back; others deserve to be ripped down. When appropriate, I want to be the curtain remover.

Jonathan Franklin

War Back Down Want Deserve Never

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

Dick Schaap

Good Writing Down More Good Writing

Each book requires a different kind of treatment and structural gambit.

Colson Whitehead

Book Kind Different Treatment Each

I'm not ever going to retire. That's - that wouldn't be good, for one, just to go somewhere and sit down and do nothing. Please. No, that's not moi.

Aretha Franklin

Good Down Go Nothing Retire Going

Foot work, hand-eye coordination. There's a lot of things. If you just watch basketball, you can tell where it would help someone who's receiving the ball.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

Work Basketball Someone Help You

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

William Penn

Time Want Worst Most Use

I've been playing swing chords for a long time.

Suzy Bogguss

Time Long Long Time Swing Playing

A job letter, an interview - even a writing sample - have far less to do with intellect and far more to do with aesthetics than you think.

Timothy Morton

Job Writing Think You More Far