The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders. — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter. — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I know I can always draw, but I actually love the writing the most. — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
Sticking to my schedule, Ive gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a Pearls Before Swine movie script for… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I write for three or four hours and then hopefully I'll have something. Then I draw for the rest of the afternoon...… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
When you do anything creative, you really have to live entirely in that world. I think my ability to do that is… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
“Scott Adams: From him, I learned how to write a three-panel comic. Probably the best pure writer on the comics page.” — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store. — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
“Humility is what you strive for when you've failed at everything else.” — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke,… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability. — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
If you put me in 'South Park,' that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes. — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders. — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
Thomas, my 15-year-old, is effectively my editor, I've always trusted his voice, more than anybody, on the strip for years. He has one of… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I think it might surprise the average person how angry people can get over the comics. — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
“I know that if I am to move forward like the professional that I am, I must first see the past with mature eyes.… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
