Harvey Pekar Quotes - Page 2

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• 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 going.

  Harvey Pekar

  Ongoing, Never Quit, Splendor

  Interview with Shawna Ervin-Gore, www.darkhorse.com.

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• 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 was interested in

  Harvey Pekar

  School, Kids, Ems

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.104, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.

  Harvey Pekar

  Misery, Company

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

  Harvey Pekar

  Thinking, Long, People

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• You do not pursue potential conflict unless you hold power over your foe.

  Harvey Pekar

  Over You, Conflict, Foe

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• I don't think I made any really big mistakes; it's just that I chose something difficult to do. Looking back, I suppose I should be grateful that I got as far as I got.

  Harvey Pekar

  Mistake, Grateful, Thinking

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• People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now.

  Harvey Pekar

  Believe, People, Absurd

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• Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, Internet, Comic

  "Exclusive: Harvey Pekar Talks Webcomics, Art And His New Series, 'The Pekar Project'". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.mtv.com. September 8, 2009.

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• Im pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.

  Harvey Pekar

  Trying, Aggressive, Obnoxious

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• I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.

  Harvey Pekar

  Writing, People, Literature

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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 slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)

  Harvey Pekar

  Stupid, Math, Intelligent

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• I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

  Harvey Pekar

  People, Trying, Kind

  "Harvey Pekar: Conversations".

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• I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

  Harvey Pekar

  Writing, Wife, Argument

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• I'm a guy that likes to sit in one place

  Harvey Pekar

  Guy, Likes

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• 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

  Harvey Pekar

  Light, Want, Written

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.107, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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 sort of thing

  Harvey Pekar

  Comedian, Novelists, Doing Me

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.104, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.

  Harvey Pekar

  Art, Thinking, Form

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.125, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, Guy, Generations

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• 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 look like and turn it over to the artist

  Harvey Pekar

  Fashion, Writing, Artist

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• I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, Thinking, Sun

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.105, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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 about.

  Harvey Pekar

  Writing, Routine, Want

  "American Splendor author Harvey Pekar dies aged 70" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2010.

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• I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

  Harvey Pekar

  Writing, People, Common

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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