Writer Quotes by Harvey Pekar

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

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

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes

— Harvey Pekar

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

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

— Harvey Pekar

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and…

— Harvey Pekar

Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.

— Harvey Pekar

I have to be a freelance writer for the rest of my life, unless I get some kind of real lucky break.…

— Harvey Pekar

The way I write is, I listen to things in my head, and then I copy them down. I memorize conversations and…

— Harvey Pekar

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

I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because…

— Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think…

— Harvey Pekar

I can't write in a whole lot of different styles, trying to please the highbrows one time and the lowbrows the next.…

— Harvey Pekar