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"I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar."
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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach."
Love
"That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people."
People
"But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it."
Fact
"So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic."
Storytelling
"But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube."
Reading
"I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced."
Want
"Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects."
Life
"It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed."
Art
"For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States."
Reading
"So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration."
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