It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I want to keep doing as much work as I can, and I want to keep the level high. I'm wondering if… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
If there is something to worry about, my mind has a tendency to worry about it. That can cut two ways. It… — 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'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of… — 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
