I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
The way I write is, I listen to things in my head, and then I copy them down. I memorize conversations and… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor,… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I'd like to see the comics' style expanded. I'd like to see artists synthesize traditional comics arts style with fine-arts styles or… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn't… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Israel's creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering,… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I've gotten more and more cut off from the regular comic-book world, from straight comics and stuff like that. Once in a… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I have to be a freelance writer for the rest of my life, unless I get some kind of real lucky break.… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . . — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.' — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day? Part of the reason was to keep… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
