"People really want to think that these things……" — Alison Bechdel
"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 reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author."
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54 Quotes by Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel has 54 quotes on this site.
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It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
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If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my…
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Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure
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Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I…
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You can't live and write at the same time.
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The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
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It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her…
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I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
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And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented…
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Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
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The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who…
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
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