Explore Quotes by Daniel Clowes

When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.

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

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.

In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.

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.

Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!

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

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