Daniel Clowes Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• For me, the whole process involves envisioning this Ghost World comic book in my head as I'm working.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Process, Envisioning

  "Modern Cartoonist Daniel Clowes Prefers Paper to iPad" by Hugh Hart, www.wired.com. May 24, 2012.

• Certainly it's great to be able to talk to your friends about something. They might mention a film, and you can find all about it, and you don't have to wait months until you can find a book that might cover the subject and keep it in your head. You can have that kind of immediacy. But there's also something about it, where all the knowledge seems kind of fleeting. All the stuff I learn about in that way, I can be interested in for a day and then it's gone.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Waiting, Stuff

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Thinking, Ships

• I never know if a book is crazy or not. There's that fear - this is the one that will end it all.

  Daniel Clowes

  Crazy, Book

• Usually when I put together a book like this Death-Ray hardcover or that Ghost World special edition, then I have to reread it and see if there is anything I want to change or any re-coloring I want to do. That's when I'm faced with the actual work. When I'm working, I'm too close to it. I'm sort of inside, and I can't see it at all. So when I have that experience of rereading it years later, it's jarring.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Years, Together

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

• I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

  Daniel Clowes

  Art, Book, Upside Down

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

• As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Projects, Wells

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

• I've felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain this sameness and rhythm throughout an entire book, and it was not really necessary.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Past, Drawing

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

• It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Mean, Adults

  "Clowes Speak" by Tad Friend, July 30, 2001.

• If I could have somehow been the kind of artist who could crank out two or three issues a year, that's different. That's sort of what it's all about, to get this thing out so that there's some kind of continuity. But to do a comic book every year or two was just so anti-climactic.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Artist, Years

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Online, Reader

  "Modern Cartoonist Daniel Clowes Prefers Paper to iPad" by Hugh Hart, www.wired.com. May 24, 2012.

• I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Issues, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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