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Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

Quote by Michael Chabon about love, books

I was a big comics reader when I was a kid, from about...

I was a big comics reader when I was a kid, from about six to fifteen. I collected them, I read them, I even created my own characters in comics.

Quote by Michael Chabon

It's about comic books, and in my greatly enlarged recent experience it's become clear that women have a very negative attitude toward comic books. They didn't grow up reading them, for the most part.

Quote by Michael Chabon about books, attitude, experience

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a...

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about work

How was I to do that? If I wrote about them in the same language that I was using to write about Joe and Sammy, it would give the comics characters the same level of familiarity.

Quote by Michael Chabon about language

I completely lost interest in comics. I sold my...

I completely lost interest in comics. I sold my collection. I didn't go back to them for fifteen years - until after Wonder Boys.

Quote by Michael Chabon about miracle, interest

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.

Quote by Michael Chabon about childhood, self-control, common sense, sense, old, olderness

I started to feel that I had a large problem: my comic book characters didn't exist, and none of my readers would have seen them. The Escapist existed only within the covers of this book.

Quote by Michael Chabon

It probably reaches deep down into my childhood history as a geek, being interested in comic books and getting nowhere with girls. Those two things going hand-in-hand.

Quote by Michael Chabon about childhood, books, history, being, things

That makes Joe pretty unusual among comic book artists of his time, though there were a couple, the foremost among them being Will Eisner, a brilliant artist and a very talented storyteller.

Quote by Michael Chabon about artists, couple, being, time

That was the flash: I was going to write about comic book...

That was the flash: I was going to write about comic book creators in the 1940s.

Quote by Michael Chabon

There was a Jewish element to all that, and the creators...

There was a Jewish element to all that, and the creators of all these golden age comic books, many of them were Jewish kids.

Quote by Michael Chabon about books, age, olderness

When I started working the Houdini vein, very quickly I realized that escapism is always a charge leveled against comics: why would one want to waste time reading them? It all belonged together.

Quote by Michael Chabon about waste, time

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I...

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes

I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and...

I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about work, people

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went...

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.

Quote by Harvey Pekar

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who...

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about man, common sense, people

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of...

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about humor, people

I think the people who would be the least interested in...

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about opinion, books, people, work

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do...

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about opinion, art, magic, contentment

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