"It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair."

Age, Character, Hair

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"It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair."

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

William James, American Philosopher

Age, Character, Will, World

"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Age, Youth

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Age, Absurdity, May

"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Age, Forget, Invention

"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Age, Work, Genius, Cleanliness

"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Age, Abundance, Harvest, Old

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

Willa Cather, American Author

Age, Writer

"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Time, Old

"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

Age, Months

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Age, Belief, Disguise

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"Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out."

Trying

"I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it."

Reason

"For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me."

Reason

"Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white."

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"People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author."

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"I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more."

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

"If youth knew; if age could."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

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"Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out."

"I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it."

"For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me."

"Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white."

"People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author."

"Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them."

"But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu."

"The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence."

"Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated."

"I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more."