Harvey Pekar Quotes
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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.
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I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.
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Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.
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I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers
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It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing
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Im pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.
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As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.
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I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes
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I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All I did was think about Jennie Gerhardt and Alice Quinn and all the decades of people I had known. The more I thought, the more I felt like crying. Life seemed so sweet and so sad, and so hard to let go of in the end. But hey, man, every day is a brand new deal, right? Just keep on working and something's bound to turn up.
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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.
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It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.
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There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)
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Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes
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I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.
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I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.
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Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative.
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I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.
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My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day? Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different values derived from different cultures and wouldn't agree on certain issues, they were good people, incredible people, and I loved and respected them.
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I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.
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Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.
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I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.
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When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures
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It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.
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I don't think I made any really big mistakes; it's just that I chose something difficult to do. Looking back, I suppose I should be grateful that I got as far as I got.
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Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.
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People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
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I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .
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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
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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.
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I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys
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