Career Writing Quotes by Stephan Pastis

For me, going to Minneapolis is like going to Mecca.

— Stephan Pastis

I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store.

— Stephan Pastis

“Humility is what you strive for when you've failed at everything else.”

— Stephan Pastis

A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke,…

— Stephan Pastis

I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.

— Stephan Pastis

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

— Stephan Pastis

When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.

— Stephan Pastis

Thomas, my 15-year-old, is effectively my editor, I've always trusted his voice, more than anybody, on the strip for years. He has one of…

— Stephan Pastis

I think it might surprise the average person how angry people can get over the comics.

— Stephan Pastis

You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up…

— Stephan Pastis

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…

— Stephan Pastis

“I know that if I am to move forward like the professional that I am, I must first see the past with mature eyes.…

— Stephan Pastis

“Perhaps it is a secret yearning of all Hallmark employees to use the phrase 'you big fat pain in the butt' in an anniversary…

— Stephan Pastis

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…

— Stephan Pastis

I know I can always draw, but I actually love the writing the most.

— Stephan Pastis