Vera Brosgol Quotes

• You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside.

  Vera Brosgol

  Looks, May, Normal

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• I could lose myself forever in that dark hair and those sweet love handles.

  Vera Brosgol

  Sweet, Dark, Hair

  Vera Brosgol (2011). “Anya's Ghost”, p.111, Macmillan

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• Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have.

  Vera Brosgol

  Teenager, Goal, Lame

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• Comics taught me how to write, and also patience and confidence.

  Vera Brosgol

  Writing, Taught

  "Five questions for Vera Brosgol". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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• In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at and touched and read over and over. Maybe even chewed on a little. Everything needs to be thoughtful and economical, thirty-two little masterpieces.

  Vera Brosgol

  Book, Thoughtful, Past

  Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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• I think sometimes older people wind up being a little childlike. They've done their time, now they get to do what they want.

  Vera Brosgol

  Thinking, Wind, People

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!

  Vera Brosgol

  Hate, Google, Library

  Vera Brosgol (2011). “Anya's Ghost”, p.142, Macmillan

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• Animation taught me to draw quickly and clearly and to communicate a character's feelings through his or her body language and facial expressions.

  Vera Brosgol

  Character, Expression, Feelings

  "Five questions for Vera Brosgol". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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• I love drawing what the character is feeling, in my comics, with no dialogue.

  Vera Brosgol

  Character, Drawing, Feelings

  "Five questions for Vera Brosgol". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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• You work for so long on a graphic novel that it's easy to question your ideas or to burn out on drawing. But you plug away at it and trust in the story you want to tell. It's a marathon, but the finished product is really satisfying.

  Vera Brosgol

  Ideas, Drawing, Long

  "Five questions for Vera Brosgol". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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• I'm one of those people with restless hands. I need to be doodling, or biting my nails, or making socks.

  Vera Brosgol

  Hands, People, Doodling

  Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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• Knitting is repetitive, rewarding, and calms me down like a warm bath. But it takes up juuuust enough brainspace that I can't come up with ideas. Which is too bad, because I love multitasking.

  Vera Brosgol

  Knitting, Ideas, Multitasking

  Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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• I'm fortunate enough to get to make books for a living, so I spend my entire workday alone in my studio quietly doing my favorite thing in the world. When I need a break from that, it's usually because I'm desperate to see other human beings again!

  Vera Brosgol

  Book, Needs, World

  "Five questions for Vera Brosgol". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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