A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My novels or my stories come to me….

I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel..

Faith is learned through life..

Behind every crime is a story of sadness..

I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the….

NOVEL, n. A short story padded..

What appears is good; what is good appears..

You're a writer. Make it up..

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story..

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't publ….

Why write stories? To join the conversation..

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories..

Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories..

How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story..

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disea….

Do what you're afraid to do..

Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual..

Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart..

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story..

Knowledge isn’t love.

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image..