Harvey Pekar Quotes

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• There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or…
• And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but…
• I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.
• American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep…
• I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.
• I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.
• I realize that I'm pretty flawed, but you know - I haven't killed anybody yet.
• I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work…
• I'm a guy that likes to sit in one place
• It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends
• It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that…
• I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much…
• I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes
• I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys
• I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should…
• I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers
• I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All…
• 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 want to write…
• Every ethnic group thinks they are the chosen ones. …
• I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.

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