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"When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling."
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"Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influence of which one was more absolutely conscious. There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived in act and circumstance, but as his imagination had created it for him, as if it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own."

"Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering."

"Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not."

"My life transformed by making myself a reader."

"I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much."

"Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread."

"When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling."
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"I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody."

"There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair."

"When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression."

"Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else."

"The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up."

"Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes."
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