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I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

~Daniel Clowes

Topics: Attach Book Gonna Myself Publishing Ship Sinking Think I Think

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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

~Daniel Clowes

Topics: Been Comics Figure Less Made Must My Own Old Out Own Read Remember Stories Through Trying Up Words Years I Remember

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I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

~Daniel Clowes

Topics: Other Overly People Polite Sort Tend Type Who

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Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!

~Daniel Clowes

Topics: Fire Heart Kindle Letting Protect Try Your

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I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

~Daniel Clowes

Topics: Always Bite Everything Fearful Glass Kid Kissing Little Little Kid Other People See Think Trying Very Worst Would

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I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

~Daniel Clowes

Topics: Abstraction Certain Comics Fine Fine Line Give Kind Line Look Photographic Realism Sort Vision Want Way

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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

~Daniel Clowes

Topics: Comic Connecting Dead Even Give Kind Life Page Photograph Really Seems Some Sometimes Spark Very You

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When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

~Daniel Clowes

Topics: Camp Complaining Constantly Could Disappointed Fall Got Had Horrified Means People Personality See Some Somebody Things Think Vision Would You I Think

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It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

~Daniel Clowes

Topics: Adult Books Business Comic Comic Books Draw Embarrassing Instant Involved Mainstream Means Notions Other Preconceived Same Still Tell Thing Very

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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

~Daniel Clowes

Topics: Business Comics Individual Love Medium Nothing Proud Would I Love

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 14th, 1961

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