Chris Ware Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.”

“I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.”

“One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.”

“The real power of comics is writing as you draw.”

“The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.”

“As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.”

“I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.”

“I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.”

“I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.'”

“Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.”