Daniel Clowes Quotes

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.
Daniel Clowes

Means, Vision, Fall

I originally just wanted to be an artist.
Daniel Clowes

Wanted, Artist, Originally

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.
Daniel Clowes

Enjoy, Swear, Symbols

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
Daniel Clowes

Movie, Move, Novel

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
Daniel Clowes

Book, Rather, Million

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.
Daniel Clowes

School, Single, High

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
Daniel Clowes

Book, Working, Whole

I don't read much of anything online.
Daniel Clowes

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
Daniel Clowes

Old, Television, Comics

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.
Daniel Clowes

Give, Vision, Line

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
Daniel Clowes

Love, Business, Nothing

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
Daniel Clowes

Words, Through, Trying

I never feel there's anything I can't do.
Daniel Clowes

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
Daniel Clowes

Polite, Tend, Overly

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.
Daniel Clowes

Book, Ship, Gonna

I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.
Daniel Clowes

Time, Kid, Fantasy

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.
Daniel Clowes

Die, Leave, Disappear

I try personally not to be nostalgic.
Daniel Clowes

Try, Nostalgic, Personally

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.
Daniel Clowes

Made, Before, Living

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
Daniel Clowes

Everything, Trying, Worst

I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.
Daniel Clowes

Fan, Wood, Pulp

I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
Daniel Clowes

Difficult, Interested, Characters

I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
Daniel Clowes

Internet, Comics, Opposed

In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
Daniel Clowes

Around, Able, Movie

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
Daniel Clowes

Best, Art, School

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 14, 1961

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