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"I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics."
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"The world system is employment."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start."

"The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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