Bill Watterson Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

  Bill Watterson

  Writing, Fog, Practice

  "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1994.

• The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.

  Bill Watterson

  Writing, Drawing, Vices

  Source: bob.bigw.org

• It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, "Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy."

  Bill Watterson

  Art, Writing, People

  Source: bob.bigw.org

• Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his toes, or to keep the strip unpredictable. I try to achieve some sort of balance between the two that keeps the reader wondering what's going to happen next and be surprised.

  Bill Watterson

  Writing, Two, Balance

  Source: www.tcj.com

• As "Calvin and Hobbes" went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity. One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what's going on in Calvin's head.

  Bill Watterson

  Writing, Reality, Drawing

  Source: www.annistonstar.com

• I enjoy the drawing more than the writing, so I try to think of ideas that will allow me to develop the visual side of the strip as fully as possible.

  Bill Watterson

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.tcj.com

• What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.

  Bill Watterson

  Writing, Character, Trying

  Source: www.tcj.com

• I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true to the situation and true to the character.

  Bill Watterson

  Jobs, Writing, Character

  Source: www.tcj.com

• I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.

  Bill Watterson

  Writing, Reflection, Way

  Source: bob.bigw.org

• I write separately from the inking up. I'm sure this varies from cartoonist to cartoonist; I find that the writing is the hard part and the drawing is the fun part.

  Bill Watterson

  Fun, Writing, Drawing

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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