Art Spiegelman Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

  Art Spiegelman

  Reading, Drug, Literacy

• Even on the iPad or the Kindle, when reading a book, you're rewarded for pressing a button - it's almost as if it were a Pavlovian thing. There's a little action that happens. And that there's always a little pump of adrenaline that happens. But that pump is different when you're lifting a page as if it was a curtain in a theater to show you another thing.

  Art Spiegelman

  Book, Reading, Ipads

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made by humans, rather than being natural phenomenon likes trees or rocks, I just wanted to be one of the people who did that. So I was copying all kinds of cartoons that I was reading, comic books, and eventually learned how to draw cartoon books step-by-step and just, I don't know, I'm not an especially quick learner, but I sure was a dedicated one.

  Art Spiegelman

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Art Spiegelman’s Life in the 'Shadow of Maus'". Interview with Eric Wuestewald, www.motherjones.com. January 6, 2014.

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