Details Quote by Rick Moody

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

— David Sedaris

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

— Dav Pilkey

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

— Ashwin Sanghi

The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures.

— Marc Brown

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

— Bob Kane

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So…

— Anonymous

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

— Tibor Kalman

I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.

— Neil Farber

I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the…

— Richard MacDonald

I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time.

— John Cariani

At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make it work.…

— Daniel Clowes

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

— Len Wein