Stephan Pastis Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when you're in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. It's a great trick.”

“I'm 12 years old in my head.”

“If you put me in 'South Park,' that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.”

“The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it's constantly this fire at my heels.”

“The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.”

“This is every creative person's dream - a hobby that I'm lucky enough to get paid for.”

“A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I don't know what they think.”

“Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or whatever. I think it's a fairly common story.”

“It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well.”

“Repeats are the worst, and 'Peanuts' was the one that started that. They don't rerun the news, do they? They don't repeat any other part of the paper. Why do they do it in the comics?”