Jules Feiffer Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.

  Jules Feiffer

  Writing, Past, Light

  Jules Feiffer (1978). “Ackroyd”, Avon Books

• There are many people who get beat up, who suffer, who are victimized, and then they sit down to write and they write crap. How many of these graphic novels over the years are from really talented people? Most of them actually, if you look at them, are self-pitying confessionals about "poor me".

  Jules Feiffer

  Writing, People, Suffering

• When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience on stage with the actors and to get them thoroughly involved in what's going on.

  Jules Feiffer

  Writing, Play, Actors

  "Jules Feiffer, Sketchy Character". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. August 30, 2010.

• I think we overrate experience and what we've been through in terms of our success at doing the work we do. There are many people who get beat up, who suffer, who are victimized, and then they sit down to write and they write crap.

  Jules Feiffer

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Jules Feiffer, Sketchy Character". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. August 30, 2010.

• The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens outside the brain.

  Jules Feiffer

  Writing, Brain, Littles

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2008.

• I found it was my good fortune to somehow be able to work in these forms that I loved when I was a kid. I love movies and I could write screenplays. I love theater and I could write plays. I mean, they would be my own, I could never write what was used to be called the well-made play. But my first play, "Little Murders," turned out to be a great success and a great influence on plays at that time.

  Jules Feiffer

  Mean, Kids, Writing

  Source: bigthink.com

• I've had enormous luck and enormous pleasure in working in such forms as movies and plays that I loved when I was a kid and I just - because I could always write dialogue, because I always had a sense of how people spoke. And because I had a strong narrative sense; growing up and loving stories, loving novels, I just seem to know how to tell a story and I read a lot, I went to a lot of movies, I went to a lot of plays, and it rubbed off on me. And that's all. It just rubbed off on me.

  Jules Feiffer

  Strong, Growing Up, Writing

  Source: bigthink.com

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