I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.
- Daniel Clowes
Think, I Think, Very, Erase
I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
- Daniel Clowes
Other, Polite, Tend, Overly
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.
- Daniel Clowes
Kind, Give, Photographic, Fine Line
It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.
- Daniel Clowes
Very, Comic Books, Means, Preconceived
That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
- Daniel Clowes
Fame, Oldest, iPad, Claim
You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
- Daniel Clowes
Give, Some, Very, Spark
Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.
- Daniel Clowes
Completion, Like, Artificial, Endings
When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.
- Daniel Clowes
Some, I Think, Had, Camp
In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
- Daniel Clowes
Art, School, Very, Art School
I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.
- Daniel Clowes
Fan, Pulp, Wood
I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.
- Daniel Clowes
Living, Made, Before, Embarrassing
I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.
- Daniel Clowes
Think, I Think, Gonna, Attach
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.
- Daniel Clowes
Deal, Movie, Whim, Budget
Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
- Daniel Clowes
Movies, How, Made, Fluid
But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.
- Daniel Clowes
Opportunity, Enjoy, Use, Swear
Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
- Daniel Clowes
Fire, Try, Letting, Kindle
Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
- Daniel Clowes
Book, Rather, Had, Readers
I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
- Daniel Clowes
Fear, Always, Very, Kissing
When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.
- Daniel Clowes
Think, Always, Draw, Chicago
People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
- Daniel Clowes
More, Need, Ever, Likable
I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.
- Daniel Clowes
Die, Think, I Think, Trace
Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
- Daniel Clowes
My Life, Happen, Always, Superman
I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
- Daniel Clowes
Love, Proud, I Love, Medium
Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.
- Daniel Clowes
Same, Feels, Else, Nobody Else
When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
- Daniel Clowes
Get, Tend, Take, Seriously
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.
- Daniel Clowes
Kid, High School, Based, Noticed
I don't read much of anything online.
- Daniel Clowes
Anything, Much, Read, Online
I try personally not to be nostalgic.
- Daniel Clowes
Try, Personally, Nostalgic
I originally just wanted to be an artist.
- Daniel Clowes
Artist, Just, Wanted, Originally
Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
- Daniel Clowes
Movie, Move, Would, Seldom
I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
- Daniel Clowes
I Remember, Through, Been, Comics
I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
- Daniel Clowes
Me, Interesting, Opposed, Comics
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.
- Daniel Clowes
Work, Doing, Bed, Comics
I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
- Daniel Clowes
Television, Old, Stack, Comics
For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
- Daniel Clowes
Book, Process, Head, Involves
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