“The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. Not, you may note, to serve… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
I do sometimes miss doing that lighter, more humorous work, and I find there's a heavier responsibility that goes along with a… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“My homosexuality remained at that point purely theoretical, an untested hypothesis. But it was a hypothesise so thorough and so convincing I saw no… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“I put the odds on a psychic deathmatch between Attila the Hun and Virginia Woolf at fifty-fifty.” — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“Then there were those famous wings. Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly. Whatever it was I wanted from my mother was simply not there to be had.… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“It's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past.” — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
