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My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd.


Chuck Palahniuk

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ALEX GARLAND Comic-Con fans are so affectionate, and it's always a lovely way to start a new season.
KUNAL NAYYAR Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.
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MAE WHITMAN Comic-Con is so legendary, so a great thrill to be invited along.
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BILL MUMY 'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So ...
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LYNDSY FONSECA You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A phot...
DANIEL CLOWES My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.
JONATHAN HICKMAN The first comic book I ever bought, I was in third grade. It was 'Avengers,' I think, #240. ...
DAVID DASTMALCHIAN Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
ALISON BECHDEL It's absolutely chilling to think that I've been working on a comic-book series called '...
ADRIAN TOMINE That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the iss...
ADAM HUGHES I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you n...
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JIM LEE Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.
JASON ALEXANDER We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
WILLIAM GADDIS Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.
DARREN ARONOFSKY Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.
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HOWARD JACOBSON My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.
ADRIANNE PALICKI Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're m...
FELICIA DAY Comic books and radio were my escape. I even remember 3-D comic books where you put on the red-and-g...
GEORGE A. ROMERO I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my in...
BILL BRYSON Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beg...
MATT GROENING I like my leaders smart and serious. I don't need a stand-up comic.
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RACHEL KUSHNER I was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'...
JO BRAND I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. ...
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ANNA KENDRICK The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.
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ERIK GRIFFIN We live in a bubble sometimes, and you can get out of touch with your fans. You go to the studio, yo...
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things th...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The things you own end up owning you.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depre...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We just had a near-life experience!
CHUCK PALAHNIUK This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you thei...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfec...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Masochism is a valuable job skill.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sof...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Real discoveries come from chaos.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The future is just wasted on some people.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t
CHUCK PALAHNIUK There’s always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Us. God's forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold. God's goldfish, ignored until we're for...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beat...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I tell everybody, i'm tired of being jerked around, okay? so lets just not pretend. i don't have fuc...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK