Ancestors Quote by Emil Ferris

I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...…

— Emil Ferris

I fell asleep once while washing dishes. I hallucinated prolifically - like, squirrels knitting whole sweaters! It was like my dreams inserted themselves in…

— Emil Ferris

I never quite became the monster I wanted to be. I feel mostly monstrous as I more become myself. Because the more you become…

— Emil Ferris

I was illustrating, and I was cleaning people's houses; I was doing whatever I could to take care of my kid as a single…

— Emil Ferris

I was born with fairly serious scoliosis, and I did not walk at all until I was about two-and-a-half years old.

— Emil Ferris

I kept notebooks as a kid, and they were important to me.

— Emil Ferris

My mother was very, very beautiful, and I saw that the beautiful women around me were often constrained not only by their beauty but…

— Emil Ferris

I learned how not to be alone in the playground.

— Emil Ferris

When I'm too worn out or in pain, I lie in bed and write in my mind.

— Emil Ferris

The hardest thing is in terms of the drawing, because, you know, I really have to work to keep my hand fluid, and I've…

— Emil Ferris

My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.

— Emil Ferris

When I read 'Maus,' I realized you could tell a story of tremendous import using the graphic novel.

— Emil Ferris