Harvey Pekar Quotes - Page 2

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in

Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.

It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

You do not pursue potential conflict unless you hold power over your foe.

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.

People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now.

Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.

Im pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.

I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.

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.)

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.

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in one place

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends

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

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys

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

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers

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.

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.