Daniel Clowes Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• It's hard to tell if anyone's interested in reading a serialized story. But it's interesting to put in a cliffhanger each week. That was popular in old comic strips. They'd write a weekend story different from the daily strip. So people follow one story day to day, and a separate story on weekends. If you read them, you think "I'll read two more." Then you're like "I gotta find out!" And you read 500 more.

  Daniel Clowes

  Reading, Writing, Weekend

  Source: www.avclub.com

• My feeling is that it's one of the very few things that comics can do that you really can't do in any other medium. I feel like the reader accepts all of these styles, and after a certain point you can flip the pages and see a character rendered very differently than you saw on an earlier page, and it's not jarring. It suggests things that you can't suggest just in the writing or in the plotting.

  Daniel Clowes

  Writing, Character, Feelings

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

• I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's like controlling your own dreams.

  Daniel Clowes

  Dream, Writing, Drawing

  "Clowes Encounter: An Interview With Daniel Clowes". www.motherjones.com. May 13, 2010.

• Writing a screenplay, I'm like, "All I'm responsible for is that final script, and I take great effort and pride in that." But once I give it to someone to make, I can disassociate with it entirely and not worry that my vision isn't being represented, because I understand fully that that's not how it works.

  Daniel Clowes

  Writing, Pride, Giving

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

• Writing screenplays is very freeing from what you can do in comics in a lot of ways. You can change things around. I can take great delight in writing 40 pages, then just pressing delete and getting rid of it and not thinking about it ever again. Whereas in comics, if I had put that kind of effort into it, I couldn't go on.

  Daniel Clowes

  Writing, Thinking, Effort

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

• I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.

  Daniel Clowes

  Writing, Trying, Hours

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

• I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols. The reader reads into them something worse than what you normally would have. They work as this outburst of incoherent anger. I've found ways to write around swearing that are much more effective, rather than going for what someone really would say.

  Daniel Clowes

  Writing, Opportunity, Enjoy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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