Harvey Pekar Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

  Harvey Pekar

  Writing, Ordinary, Stuff

  Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman, Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner (2003). “American Splendor: The Official Shooting Script”, Welcome Rain

• I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and wrong, though.

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, Writing, Differences

  "Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me" by JT Waldman, Harvey Pekar, www.guernicamag.com. July 2, 2012.

• I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

  Harvey Pekar

  Writing, People, Common

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away?

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, Writing, Character

• I always wanted praise and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic and that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, What could I do? I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't act or anything like that. OK, I can write.

  Harvey Pekar

  Lying, Writing, People

• I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

  Harvey Pekar

  Writing, Wife, Argument

• I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes

  Harvey Pekar

  Writing, People, Wish

• I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist

  Harvey Pekar

  Fashion, Writing, Artist

• It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about.

  Harvey Pekar

  Writing, Routine, Want

  "American Splendor author Harvey Pekar dies aged 70" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2010.

• I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.

  Harvey Pekar

  Writing, People, Literature

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