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 decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing… — 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
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
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 don't want to play myself up as a hero, because it would make me unbelievable. I'd rather settle for people thinking… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was… — 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
Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements. — 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
Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I worry about getting work, and then when I get it, I worry about doing it well. I don't want to just… — 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
